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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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Westport

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Posted on July 7, 2010January 5, 2016Categories Places, Wandering, WashingtonLeave a comment on Westport

Oyster Dome

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Posted on July 6, 2010January 5, 2016Categories Hiking, WA Hikes1 Comment on Oyster Dome

Steamboat Rock

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Posted on July 2, 2010January 5, 2016Categories Hiking, WA HikesLeave a comment on Steamboat Rock

Mt. Si

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Posted on July 2, 2010January 5, 2016Categories Hiking, WA HikesLeave a comment on Mt. Si

He says it better than me…

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. -John Muir

Posted on July 2, 2010January 5, 2016Categories WanderingLeave a comment on He says it better than me…

Museum of Anthropology (MOA): Becoming Rivers

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Posted on July 2, 2010January 5, 2016Categories Canada, Places, WanderingLeave a comment on Museum of Anthropology (MOA): Becoming Rivers

Otter Falls

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Posted on July 2, 2010January 5, 2016Categories Hiking, WA HikesLeave a comment on Otter Falls

Orcas Island

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Posted on July 2, 2010January 5, 2016Categories Places, Wandering, WashingtonLeave a comment on Orcas Island

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