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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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Lake Lenore Caves

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Posted on June 5, 2011December 7, 2015Categories Hiking, WA HikesLeave a comment on Lake Lenore Caves

Wallace Falls

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

Goat Lake…Almost

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Posted on January 4, 2011January 4, 2016Categories Hiking, WA Hikes2 Comments on Goat Lake…Almost

Big Four Ice Caves

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Posted on January 4, 2011January 4, 2016Categories Hiking, WA Hikes2 Comments on Big Four Ice Caves

Bandera Mountain

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Posted on November 12, 2010January 4, 2016Categories Hiking, WA HikesLeave a comment on Bandera Mountain

Mason Lake

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Mason Lake

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Mason Lake

Posted on November 11, 2010January 4, 2016Categories Hiking, WA HikesLeave a comment on Mason Lake

Rattlesnake Ridge

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Posted on November 2, 2010January 4, 2016Categories Hiking, WA HikesLeave a comment on Rattlesnake Ridge

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