"There is nothing---absolutely nothing

half so much worth doing

as messing around in boats.

In or out of 'em it doesn't matter.

Nothing seems really to matter,

that's the charm of it.

Whether you get away, or whether you don't;

whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else,

or whether you never get anywhere at all,

you're always busy, and you never do anything in particular;

and when you've done it there's always something else to do,

and you can do it if you like, 

but you'd much better not."

Spoken by Ratty to Mole

in Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

Camping on the Beetle

circa 1997