Going to the Mountain Is Going Home

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

Saturday, June 18, 2011

The Lonely Forest

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Sunday, June 5, 2011

Lake Lenore Caves








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Thursday, June 2, 2011

Long Tall Forest



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Manoa Falls








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Sally Heilstedt
I have lived in the Pacific Northwest for almost 20 years. Until recently, however, I had not taken advantage of the incredible opportunities to connect with nature that this area provides. My experiences have shaped and changed my understanding of my self and the environment, and they have tied me to the people I shared them with. This is an attempt to capture some of what I have learned, mostly through photographs. Enjoy!
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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

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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