"The mountains are calling and I must go."
-John Muir
"Have a heart that
never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts."
-Charles Dickens
"Perhaps our grandsons,
having never seen a wild river, will never miss the chance to set a canoe
in singing waters…glad I shall never be young without wild country to be
young in.”
-Aldo Leopold
"Kind words can be
short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."
-Mother Teresa
“Conservation is the foresighted
utilization, preservation and/or renewal of forests, waters, lands and
minerals, for the greatest good of the greatest number for the longest
time.”
-Gifford Pinchot
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a
poet."
-Plato
"The most important
things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink
and somebody to love you."
-Brendan Behan
"I.... am always glad
to touch the living rock again and dip my hand in the high mountain air."
-John Muir
"All that glitters
is not gold. All who wander are not lost."
-JRR Tolkien
"It was kind of solemn, drifting down the
big, still river, laying on our backs, looking up at stars, and we didn't
even feel like talking aloud."
-Mark Train, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
"Love makes the time
pass. Time makes love pass."
French Proverb
“The clearest way into
the universe is through a forest wilderness.”
-John Muir
"Two roads diverged
in a yellow wood
And sorry that I couldn't
travel both
And be one traveler
I stood
And looked as far
as I could
To where it bent in
the undergrowth.
Then took the other
one just as fair
And having perhaps
the better claim
Because it was grassy
and wanted wear
Though as far as the
passing there
Had worn them really
about the same.
And both that morning
equally lay
In leaves no step
and trodden black
Oh, I kept the first
for another day!
Yet knowing how way
leads on to way
I doubted if I should
ever come back.
I shall be telling
this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and
ages hence;
Two roads diverged
in a woods, and I
I took the one less
traveled by
And that has made
all the difference."
-Robert Frost, The
Road Not Taken
"The earth does not belong to man....man belongs
to the earth."
-Chief Seattle
“In God’s wilderness
lies the hope of the world – the great fresh, unblighted, unredeemed wilderness.
The galling harness of civilization drops off, and the wounds heal ere
we are aware.”
-John Muir
"What we love we shall
grow to resemble."
-Bernard of Clairvaux
"It is safer to be
feared than loved."
-Nicolo Machiavelli
(1469-1527)
"To fall in love is awfully simple, to fall
out of love is simply awful."
-Anon
"Then here's a hail
to each flaming dawn
And here's a cheer
to the night that's gone
And may I go a roaming
on until the day I die"
-On a grave marker
in the Adirondacks
"Once in a while you find
a place on earth that becomes your very own. A place undefined. Waiting
for you to bring your color, your self. A place untouched, unspoiled, undeveloped.
Raw, honest, and haunting. No one, nothing is telling you how to feel or
who to be. Let the mountains have you for a day..."
-Sundance
"I'd rather wake up
in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth."
-Steve McQueen
"What is man without the beasts?
If all the beasts were gone,
Man would die from a great loneliness of
spirit.
For whatever happens to the beasts,
Soon happens to man.
All things are connected."
-Chief Seattle
Up to the Mountains
to breathe the fresh air
Feeling the breeze
blow through my hair
Smelling the crispness
and enjoying it so
Watching the pines
swing to and fro
Feeling the leaves
crunch under my feet
Oh how the mountains
make life so sweet
Loving the sights my
eyes behold
Having a feeling deep
in the soul
This is where I belong
on top of this hill
The feeling of life
becomes oh so real
Awakening my senses
and opening wide
A true inner feeling
of being alive!
-author unknown
"Fool me once, shame on
you; fool me twice, shame on me."
-Anon
“…In the wilderness, I find something more
dear and connate than in the streets or villages…in the woods we return
to reason and faith.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“How great are the
advantages of solitude! How sublime is the silence of nature’s ever-active
energies! There is something in the very name of wilderness which charms
the ear, and soothes the spirit of man. There is religion in it.”
“When ever the light
of civilization faces upon you with a blighting power…go to the wilderness…Dull
business routine, the fierce passions of the marketplace, the perils of
envious cities became but a memory…The wilderness will take hold of you.
It will give you good red blood; it will turn you from a weakling into
a man…You will soon behold all with a peaceful soul.”
-Estwick Evans
"In God's wildness lies
the hope of the world - the great fresh, unblighted, unredeemed wilderness."
-John Muir
“I would not have…every
part of a man cultivated, any more than I would have every acre of earth.”
-Henry David Thoreau
"No man is an island
entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the
main. . . . Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in Mankind;
and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for
thee."
- John Donne
"Work like you don't need the money, love
like you've never been hurt, and dance like nobody is watching."
-Rob Brezany
"The way to love anything
is to realise that it might be lost."
-G.K. Chesterton
"Well-timed silence
hath more eloquence than speech."
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