Dontoon

“Man is the most insane species.  He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature.  Unaware that this Nature he’s destroying is this God he’s worshiping.” — Hubert Reeves I slept well, in between getting up and peeing three…

“Climb into the mountains and get their good tidings.  Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.  The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares drop off like autumn…

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience.We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin I chose to time my trip with a solar eclipse that was going to occur across the continental U.S.…

To go, or not to go, that is the question.Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to endure the pains and errors of a broken down body,Or to rouse the will against all obstacles, and by moving forward end them.To try,…

“An ancient melody calls us To the awareness of who we are Infinite heart Infinite love Infinite peace Fierce compassion Ultimate power I am a Magnificent Woman” — Melanie Lutz 4. Girls’ Night Out It had been a beautiful early…

“It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and live for a time in the wilderness.  If he is of the proper sort,…

“The motionless mountain silence prompts with a certain secret pleasure in the soul the happiness of complete isolation.  Something which seems outside life.  Something therefore like the longing for eternal peace.” — Kostas Pasaglanis I don’t remember getting back in my…

“Once in a lifetime, perhaps, one escapes the actual confines of the flesh.  Once in a lifetime, if one is lucky, one so merges with sunlight and air and running water that whole eons, the eons that mountains and deserts…

“I thank you god for this amazing day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue dream of a sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes. (I who have died am alive…

“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson By the next morning, the high pressure system that had been baking the…

“Tree qualities, after long communion, come to reside in man. As stillness enhances silence, so through little things the joy of living expands. One is aware, lying under trees, of the roots and directions of one’s whole being. Perceptions drift…

“Our true home is in the present moment. To live in the present moment is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green Earth in the present moment. To appreciate…

“The most difficult lesson to learn about caring for the soul is that our best and most cherished ambitions are its worst enemies.” — Thomas Moore When the day of departure finally arrived, I couldn’t stand it anymore, and stopped…

“I went into the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that…

“So much of what I’ve learned, so much of what’s good in my life, was learned because something bad happened, or from making the wrong decision. Through bad decisions I learned how to find the ways to make the right…

“The moon is a loyal companion.  It never leaves.  It’s always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do.  Every day it’s a different version of itself.  Sometimes weak and wan,…