Don't Waste Words

Recorded live by Communitas Singers outside Millican Dalton's Cave in Borrowdale on September 4th 2021.
Millican Dalton (20 April 1867 - 5 February 1947) was a self-styled "Professor of Adventure". At the age of 36, he went to live in a cave in Borrowdale (which he dubbed "The Cave Hotel"). An alternative lifestyler long before the term was created, Dalton - vegetarian, pacifist and teetotaller -
lived off his wits, surviving on a small income as a climbing guide. Dalton's legacy can be seen in the upper chamber of the cave, where he carved his own epitaph into the wall above where he slept. It reads: "Don't Waste Words, Jump to Conclusions". During the winter of 1946-47, he moved into a tent. This was too much for his 79-year-old frame, however, and he contracted pneumonia, of which he died. (Wikipedia)