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NATURE IS NEVER SPENT

Wandering through the peaks and valleys of belief, passion, and all that other good and terrible stuff

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

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God’s Grandeur

THE WORLD is charged with the grandeur of God.

It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;

It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil

Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?

Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;

And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;

And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell: the soil

Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

And for all this, nature is never spent;

There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;

And though the last lights off the black West went

Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs—

Because the Holy Ghost over the bent

World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

-Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul. -John Muir

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Month: January 2011

Wallace Falls

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Posted on January 30, 2011December 7, 2015Categories Hiking, WA Hikes1 Comment on Wallace Falls

Untitled

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Posted on January 26, 2011December 7, 2015Categories Projects, WanderingLeave a comment on Untitled

All Kinds

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Posted on January 26, 2011January 4, 2016Categories Projects, WanderingLeave a comment on All Kinds

On Top of Bandera

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Posted on January 26, 2011January 4, 2016Categories Projects, WanderingLeave a comment on On Top of Bandera

I Was Distracted

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Posted on January 26, 2011January 4, 2016Categories Projects, WanderingLeave a comment on I Was Distracted

Such a Beautiful View

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Posted on January 17, 2011January 4, 2016Categories Projects, WanderingLeave a comment on Such a Beautiful View

The beginning of a story…

Helena notices the quick darkness of the dense forest on either side of the mountain pass. It calls her in, inviting her to run blindly through the trees. She presses her forehead against the passenger window, squints her eyes, and tries to imagine what it would feel like to fly like that.

Posted on January 16, 2011January 4, 2016Categories Poetry, WanderingLeave a comment on The beginning of a story…

Therapy

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Posted on January 16, 2011January 4, 2016Categories Projects, WanderingLeave a comment on Therapy

Unlikely

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Posted on January 12, 2011January 4, 2016Categories Projects, WanderingLeave a comment on Unlikely

Run

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Posted on January 9, 2011January 4, 2016Categories Projects, WanderingLeave a comment on Run

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