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From Where I Stand...
“I am reminded that the most fertile lands are often built by the fires of volcanoes.” ― Ed Lehming On the seventh day of our Iceland journey, my son and I travelled...
“The experience was powerful and fundamental. It seemed to me that it had always felt like this to be a human in the wild, and as long as the wild existed...
“It’s not about inviting great things into our lives. Rather, it’s about accepting the invitation of great things to step out of our lives.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough For those following my...
“Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” ― Erol Ozan This, our sixth day of travel, did not leave us lost, as the quote may imply, but it did send...
“Faeries, come take me out of this dull world, For I would ride with you upon the wind, Run on the top of the dishevelled tide, And dance upon the mountains...
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity…...
“The greatest loss lies in our inability to accept loss.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough I have a strange fascination with abandoned buildings, always wondering how they became abandoned and the stories they...
“When you don’t cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity, instead of...
“Nature was pure, and still is.” ― Anthony T. Hincks On day five of our ten-day Iceland trip, we drove through what felt like a rather long stretch of nothing much, as...
“I took my love, I took it down Climbed a mountain and I turned around And I saw my reflection in the snow covered hills ‘Til the landslide brought me down”...
“Unlike the majority of people, he did not hate or fear the wilderness; as harsh as the empty lands were, they possessed a grace and a beauty that no artifice could...
“How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!” ― John Muir The name Austari – Skógarmannafjöll literally means East Skogar Mountains. I’m still trying to understand the multiple iterations of Icelandic...
“I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.” ― Brian Andreas Believe it or not, this is a colour photo. The...
“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity” ― John Muir I have found myself looking...
“The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn’t matter which road we embark...
“The best part of the journey is the surprise and wonder along the way.” ― Ken Poirot One thing I never got tired of in Iceland was the waterfall and there was never...
“A horse loves freedom, and the weariest old work horse will roll on the ground or break into a lumbering gallop when he is turned loose into the open.” ― Gerald Raftery...
“Well, first of all,” said the BFG, “human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we exist.” ― Roald Dahl You’d think, to look on...
“It’s not the endings that will haunt you But the space where they should lie, The things that simply faded Without one final wave goodbye.” ― Erin Hanson The long journey comes...
“Ice, deep, blue and tortured ice; The vault of time, and memory, long past.” – Ed Lehming Words can barely describe the feeling of standing side by side with a glacier....
Ice, massive ancient glacial ice, sagging and flowing under its own weight; A great white beast, carving and devouring the mountains which contain it, creeping forward, unstoppable; It’s only foe, sunlight...
“The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with...
“There was an ocean above us, held in by a thin sac that might rupture and let down a flood at any second.” ― Stephen King Mýrdalssandur is a massive outwash plain...
“The places where water comes together with other water. Those places stand out in my mind like holy places.” ― Raymond Carver Water upon water, water flowing everywhere, from the high and...
We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually experiencing. Only later when the cloth is untied can...
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature...
“Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder’s frame of mind, or any one thing, can effectively change their appearance. Thus, it is essential...
“We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.” ― John Muir It feels a bit odd...
“Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people’s legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world.” ― Sarah Addison Allen Here’s yet another image, made during a...
“In November, the earth is growing quiet. It is making its bed, a winter bed for flowers and small creatures. The bed is white and silent, and much life can hide...
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