THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

Many moods of the moors are, indeed, coy, and must be wooed, not by the speeding wayfarer, but by him who can linger and return.  There are seasons when the ling is long, and difficult to make one’s way through; and there are places on the moors that are boggy and dangerous; and, indeed, let the wayfarer be warned against certain spots which assume a hue of most delicious green, and seem to lengthen out in tempting pathways downward from the hills, for these are but the mossy vesture of wet swamps, in which one may easily sink, but whence it is far more difficult to escape.

Leyland/Coast