Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. - John Muir quoted by Samuel Hall Young in Alaska Days with John Muir (1915) chapter 7 "God never made an ugly landscape. All that the sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild." ~ John Muir John Muir is on my list of people I would like to have Continue Reading...
Going Home?
“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity” ― John Muir, Our National Parks Continue Reading...
Where will you go?
Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt. ~John Muir Continue Reading...
Stories in every stone
http://wp.me/p2WUYR-5E Then came a silence, a hush that only solitude knowsThe hazy sun, diving to the horizon all aglow Peeked, all other sounds, tho faint, seems to explodeHidden now, a trail, reverent americans once rode Shadows grow, the bouquet of color dims and greysLight diminished, familiarity rushes from this place Exhaling breath that finds the exit difficult to beholdA piece not to be Continue Reading...