"Form no preconceptions whatsoever in your mind." -Kerouac
"It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy. Let's go exploring." -Watterson
"The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality." - James Michener
"For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travels sake. The great affair is to move." -Robert Louis Stevenson
"The cure for everything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea." -? (from my mom)
"The only anecdote for destruction is creation." -?
"You and I must, with our lives, build a world where we are as sure of the perpetuation and flowering of life as we are of the triumph of spring." -Joan Baez
"The mind is a trickster with an infinate reportoire" -? (from Jason)
"I believe in God. Only I spell it Nature." - Frank Lloyd Wright
"The world is permeated with roses of happiness all the time, only none of realize it. The happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream." -Kerouac
"Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit." -Edward Abbey
"If you don't have grass stains on your knees at the end of the day, I say you better seriously reevaluate your life." -Watterson (Calvin)
"Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter." -Edward Abbey
"One can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid." - Charles Bukowski
"Wilderness matters not because it alone is sacred but because it arouses in us the sense of sanctity that makes visible the sacredness of everything else in life." - (from Abbey)
"Every step is an important advance towards deep satisfaction and fulfillment. The spiritual journey is like traveling from valley to valley: crossing each mountain pass reveals a more magnificent landscape than the one before." -? (from Andi)
"The beginning of the adventure of finding yourself is to lose the way." - ? (from Proctor)
"Carefully observe the way your heart draws you and then choose that way with all your strength!" - ? (from Proctor)
"The purpose behind questions is to initiate the quest."-? (...Proctor)
"How the hell can a person go to work in the morning and come home in the evening and have nothing to say?" -John Prine
"A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction. It feels an impulse... this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons." -? (Proctor, again)
"Why do we need to pay to go to hellish antiseptic odour-free kids play parks when trees are all around for climbing? Trees, which are all different, all unique, all magical, are there for the taking, for the climbing, for the sitting in, for the smelling. Become like a bird."
and...
"...Forever the thought of you
and the splender of the iris
the crinkled iris petal
the gold hairs powdered with pollen
and the obscure cantata
of the tangled water
and the burning, impassive snow peaks
are knotted together here.
This place
where fact meets vision
seizes immortality
becomes the person of this place.
The responsibility of
love realized and beauty seen
burns in a burning angel
real beyond flower or stone..." Kenneth Rexroth
