
Glorious Action
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
Walter Scott
Most people know of peat moss as something to use in the garden. Whisky drinkers may know that peat is used in the making of whisky, as explained in the “Everything You Need to Know About Peat in Whisky ” by the Whisky Advocate . “Peat is used during one stage of the whisky making process only: the kilning of the malt… the malted barley is spread out and a fire is nurtured in the kiln below. Shovelfuls of aromatic, combustible peat are added to quell the flames; the objective is a thick rising cloud of pale gray peat smoke.”
About the author
Sir Walter Scott , 1st Baronet FRSE FSAScot (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish novelist, poet and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature, notably the novels Ivanhoe (1819), Rob Roy (1817), Waverley (1814), Old Mortality (1816), The Heart of Mid-Lothian (1818), and The Bride of Lammermoor (1819), along with the narrative poems Marmion (1808) and The Lady of the Lake (1810). He had a major impact on European and American literature.