“Most people are on the world, not in it — have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them — undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.” ~John Muir After more than 25 years of hiking, backpacking, camping, sauntering & lazing about on mountain tops I had a…
“Never more, however weary, should one faint by the way who gains the blessings of one mountain day; whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.” ~John Muir
“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of each.” ~Henry David Thoreau I never thought we would enjoy our first winter in the mountains so much, but we definitely have. We have bundled up and headed out for a walk or…
“Said the river: imagine everything you can imagine, then keep on going.” ~Mary Oliver
Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable. I don’t really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirds or hugging the old black oak tree. I have my way of praying, as you no doubt have yours. Besides, when I am…
“The most effective way to save the threatened and decimated natural world is to cause people to fall in love with it again, with its beauty and its reality.” ~Peter Scott
“I would rather stand in what all the world would call an idle manner, literally gaping with all the mouths of soul and body, demanding nothing, fearing nothing, but hoping and enjoying enormously. So-called sentimental, transcendental dreaming seems the only sensible and substantial business that one can engage in.” ~John Muir Originally posted on…
A Flatlander's Guide to Nature 