‘Cancel space’

The Bearcamp River in South Tamworth, N.H., on the southern edge of the White Mountains

“No matter how tightly the body may be chained to the wheel of daily duties, the spirit is free, if it so pleases, to cancel space and to bear itself away from noise and vexation into the secret places of the mountains.’’

— Frank Bolles (1856-1894), writer and lawyer, in his book At the North of Beaucamp Water: Chronicles of a Stroller in New England