“I live on the Jellicoe Road. Where trees make canopies over-head and where you can sit at the top of them and see forever.”

— Melina Marchetta, book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

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Australian teen writer 1965

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream

“Where were all these blind people? Why didn’t we see them walking on our roads? I decided I must be the one to make a difference.”

Tiffany Brar (1988) Indian Social Activist

As quoted in They Say the Blind Should Not Lead the Blind. She Proves Them Wrong. https://www.thebetterindia.com/40485/tiffany-brar-working-for-blind/ (December 22, 2015) by Ranjini Sivaswamy, The Better India.

“We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyones arguing over where they're going to sit”

David Suzuki (1936) Canadian popular scientist and environmental activist

“Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, “What road do I take?”

The cat asked, “Where do you want to go?”

“I don’t know,” Alice answered.

“Then,” said the cat, “it really doesn’t matter, does it?”

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Variant: One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. ‘Which road do I take?’ she asked. ‘Where do you want to go?’ was his response. ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the cat, ‘it doesn’t matter.
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone.”

Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922) scientist and inventor known for his work on the telephone

Quoted in Design of Devices and Systems (1998) by William H. Middendorf, p. 177.
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Context: Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone. Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. You will be certain to find something you have never seen before, and something worth thinking about to occupy your mind. All really big discoveries are the result of thought.