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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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Category: Hiking

Middle Fork Snoqualmie River

Middle Fork Snoqualmie River
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Posted on October 6, 2010January 5, 2016Categories Hiking, WA HikesLeave a comment on Middle Fork Snoqualmie River

John Wayne Trail to Twin Falls

John Wayne Trail to Twin Falls
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John Wayne Trail to Twin Falls
John Wayne Trail to Twin Falls
John Wayne Trail to Twin Falls

 

Posted on September 20, 2010January 5, 2016Categories Hiking, WA HikesLeave a comment on John Wayne Trail to Twin Falls

Cedar Butte

Cedar Butte
Cedar Butte
Cedar Butte
Cedar Butte
Cedar Butte
Cedar Butte
Cedar Butte
Cedar Butte

 

Posted on July 20, 2010January 5, 2016Categories Hiking, WA HikesLeave a comment on Cedar Butte

More…Including the Falls

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Posted on July 19, 2010January 5, 2016Categories Hiking, WA HikesLeave a comment on More…Including the Falls

Bridal Veil Falls and Lake Serene

Bridal Veil Falls and Lake Serene
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Bridal Veil Falls and Lake Serene
Bridal Veil Falls and Lake Serene
Bridal Veil Falls and Lake Serene

 

Posted on July 19, 2010January 5, 2016Categories Hiking, WA HikesLeave a comment on Bridal Veil Falls and Lake Serene

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

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

Otter Falls

Otter Falls
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Otter Falls
Otter Falls
Otter Falls
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Otter Falls

 

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

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