Barnes Common SW13

"For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere then when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone."

(Herman Hess)

"Trees are corrupting our parks. They should be arrested for loitering. For deciduous trees, add littering and indecent exposure to that list of offences."

(Bauvard)

Florence

"May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children."

(Rainer Maria Rilke)

"When you take time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it's amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing the talking happen to be children."

(Greg Mortenson)

Islington N1

"London and Fog! When these two come together it is time to be a writer."

(Mehmet Murat Ildan)

"This Melancholy London-I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually."

(William Butler Yeats)

Florence

"It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child."

(Pablo Picasso)

"Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things."

(Edgar Degas)

Chiswick House Garden W4

I think that I shall never see

A poem lovely as a tree

(Joyce kilmer)

"You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars. In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul."

(Max Ehrmann)

Battersea Park SW11

"The streets of London have their map, but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?"

(Virginia Woolf)

"The parks are the lungs of London."

(Charles Dickens)

W1. WC1 and WC2

"Go where we may, rest where we will, eternal London haunts us still."

(Thomas Moore)

"It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable or cheerful or easy or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent."

(Henry James)

Kensal Green Cemetery W10 NW10

"But there is good news to hear and fine things to be seen

 Before we go to paradise by way of Kensal Green."

(G K Chesterton)

For 30 years a total abstainer and ardent pioneer and champion by pencil word and pen of universal abstinence from intoxicating drinks.

(Monument to George Cruikshank)