FAVORITE QUOTES:
"If it's wild to your own heart, protect it. Preserve it. Love it. And fight for it, and dedicate yourself to it, whether it's a mountain range, your wife, your husband, or even (god forbid) your job. It doesn't matter if it's wild to anyone else: if it's what makes your heart sing, if it's what makes your days soar like a hawk in the summertime, then focus on it. Because for sure, it's wild, and if it's wild, it'll mean you're still free. No matter where you are."
-Rick Bass, "Wild to the Heart"
Credo
"There is but one ocean though its coves have many names; a single sea of atmosphere with no coves at all; the miracle of soil, alive and giving life, lying thin on the only earth, for which there is no spare.
We seek a renewed stirring of love for the earth. We plead that what we are capable of doing to it is often what we ought not to do. We urge that all people now determine that an untrammeled wildness shall remain here to testify that this generation had love for the next.
We would celebrate a new renaissance. The old one found a way to exploit. The new one has discovered the earth's limits. Knowing them, we may learn anew what compassion and beauty are, and pause to listen to the earth's music.
We may see that progress is not the accelerating speed with which we multiply and subdue the earth not the growing number of things we possess and cling to. it is a way along which to search for truth, to find serenity and love and reverence for life, to be part of an enduring harmony, celebrating the wildness within us."
-David R. Brower (1912-2000)
"I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in." - John Muir