A voice upon walking

Vance Havner (1901 - 1986) as quoted in Jan Karon's book, At Home in Mitford (Penguin, 1994), p.15: "This is the day of the motorist, and anyone who walks is viewed with suspicion.  You see a man coming down the road now, just meditation, and you figure he's either out of his head or out of gas.  It's such a rarity that dogs bark as though they'd seen a ghost."