Step by step, year by year, the landscape [the path walked daily from his home to the campus] I traversed became deeper, richer, more multidimensional, always overflowing the mind that sought to contain it. Ultimately, almost without my willing it, the path became more than a walk, more than an education, more than a life; it became the Path,/em>, a Tao (Way), a thread that ties one human life and the universe together.
— Chet Raymo, The Path