Update: Sunday, October 16, 2016 Yesterday Kaylee’s best friend commented on this post with concern that I didn’t have the correct information about the events surrounding Kaylee’s fall from a ledge at a Linville Falls overlook last Sunday evening. I reached out to her and I am editing this post to include the details she…
“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…
“Upon the hearth the fire is red, Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet, Still round the corner we may meet A sudden tree or standing stone That none have seen but we alone… …Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate,…
A Flatlander's Guide to Nature 