- My feet will never go flat before, during or after my walk.
- Jesus never rode a bicycle on water.
- "There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast." -- Paul Scott Mowrer
- My feet don't need a lock, rack or cage, and Eugene is not the foot theft capital of the nation.
- There is no need for, and therefore no such thing as, a walking helmet.
- I only have to beware of distracted and/or psychotic drivers about 5% of the time, when I'm crossing a street. And even then I mostly have stoplights and crosswalks on my side.
- The LORD has not required of us that we do justice, love mercy, and go for a humble bike ride with Him.
- There are no catchy eighties songs with accompanying cheesy dances about biking like an Egyptian.
- I'm fine with walking a mile in someone else's shoes, but I'll pass on riding a mile in someone else's bike shorts.
- Falls being inevitable, would you rather skin your knee or rack yourself on a solid metal bar?
- Cool, thick, velvety green grass is meant to be felt between toes, not gouged out by tires.
- Biking across the stage for your diploma, or down the aisle to your groom, will get you talked about. Doubly so if you pop a wheelie.
- "Walking takes longer than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed." -- Edward Abbey
- Expensive bicycles are a status symbol, but a foot is a foot is a foot.
- God didn't pluck Enoch off his bicycle straight into Heaven.
- "There is this to be said for walking: it's the one mode of human locomotion by which a man proceeds on his own two feet, upright, erect, as a man should be, not squatting on his rear haunches like a frog." -- Edward Abbey
- If God had gone biking through Eden in the cool of the day, He would've roared up on Adam and Eve before they could hide in the trees, and pastors everywhere would be denied a prime sermon illustration.
- Making a bicycle consumes finite resources and energy, generates pollutants, and is repetitive drudgery; making feet is part of makin' babies, which is all-natural and fun.
- "Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities." -- Lewis Mumford
Letter of Recommendation, Courtesy of Myself
10 years ago
