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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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But now I only hear / Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar

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Post Title from Dover Beach, by Matthew Arnold
Posted on July 7, 2010January 5, 2016Categories Places, Wandering, WashingtonLeave a comment on But now I only hear / Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar

Westport

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Westport

 

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

Museum of Anthropology (MOA): Becoming Rivers

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Museum of Anthropology (MOA): Becoming Rivers
Museum of Anthropology (MOA): Becoming Rivers
Museum of Anthropology (MOA): Becoming Rivers
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Museum of Anthropology (MOA): Becoming Rivers

 

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

Orcas Island

Orcas Island
Orcas Island
Orcas Island
Orcas Island
Orcas Island
Orcas Island

 

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

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