“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountain is going home; that wildness is necessity; that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.”John Muir
Walt Whitman's
Song of the Open Road
from Leaves Of Grass
Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road,
Healthy, free, the world before me,
The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose.
Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune,
Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing,
Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms,
Strong and content I travel the open road.
The earth, that is sufficient,
I do not want the constellations any nearer,
"Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven" Henry Ward Beecher
"Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination." Voltaire
"Thunder is good, thunder is impressive,
but it is the lightning that does the work."
-Mark Twain
"A mind that is
stretched by a new
experience can never
go back to its old
dimensions" Oliver Holmes
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments
of comfort, but where he stands
at times of challenge and controversy"
Martin Luther King
God is enthroned above the circle of the earth;
its inhabitants are like grasshoppers.
He stretches out the heavens like thin cloth
and spreads them out like a tent to live in.
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