Walter travelled around Sussex in the 1930s.
He pushed a cart containing his Punch and Judy show,
and slept in a tent.
In 1933 at one of his stops on the Downs, he wrote:
You sit in a cool breeze,
and the earth is so lovely,
the fields so green and calm,
the wood so still and stately,
that it seems a crime
to be fussy about your little human affairs,
and so, another half-hour, or perhaps more,
is passed in your devotion to Nature,
and the search for her secrets.
Many a perplexing problem is thus solved,
they simply fall away from you,
and you can stand and wait
with the patient earth and these old, green hills,
for the great mysteries to look after you.
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