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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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Snoqualmie Point Poem

Facing every direction
I hold up outstretched hands
Against endless dark lines of trees
Silhouetted by the reflection
Of young spring sunlight
On winter’s last icy snow
The trail packed and pock-marked
Owls begin to call
With voices like haunted women
And my feet find little purchase
As I run
Along the slick path
Alone

Posted on May 31, 2011December 7, 2015Categories Places, Poetry, Wandering, WashingtonLeave a comment on Snoqualmie Point Poem

On the Dole

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Posted on May 25, 2011December 7, 2015Categories Hawaii, Places, Wandering1 Comment on On the Dole

Up in the Air

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Posted on May 15, 2011December 7, 2015Categories Places, Wandering, WashingtonLeave a comment on Up in the Air

Amen.

“The mountains my religion, trees like sentient apostles, rivers my blood, and dirt my body. It is in contentious and aggravated topography that I feel gladness. Amen.” -Brian Leahy

Posted on April 4, 2011December 7, 2015Categories WanderingLeave a comment on Amen.

Dry Falls

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Posted on February 27, 2011December 22, 2015Categories Places, Wandering, WashingtonLeave a comment on Dry Falls

First of a Few

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Posted on February 24, 2011December 7, 2015Categories Places, Wandering, WashingtonLeave a comment on First of a Few

Wallace Falls

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

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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

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