“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Insight from Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Where Do You Belong?
“I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof. The obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bred by cities… ” – Everett Ruess, 1934
The Best Teacher: Nature
“Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.” -John Lubbock, British archaeologist and biologist, 19th century
Wise Words from Edmund Hillary
“People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.” – Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to climb Mt. Everest
Helen Keller’s View on Nature
“To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.” -Helen Keller
The Trail
“The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast and you miss all you are traveling for.” -Louis L’Amour
Does Nature Inspire You?
“The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.” -Claude Monet
What You Learn at the Top of Everest
“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” – Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to climb Mt. Everest
Take A Break and a Look Around
“It is easy in this pompous age to scan the big things of the world and forget to see the small miracles of life around us; the morning light, the flowers, those intimate details of the world that combine to make it beautiful.” – Ansel Adams
Ansel Adam’s Yosemite
“Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.” – Ansel Adams