Out of the Box: an invitation into nature: saltmarsh

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Friday, August 8, 2014

Kayak overnight

Rather than a separate post, I will simply link to my other blog.

Quotes to Live By

I cannot conceive of any life which deserves the name, unless there is in it a certain tender relations to nature.

H.D.Thoreau Jan 28, 1858

The naturalist accomplishes a great deal by patience, more perhaps than by activity. He must take his position, and then wait and watch. H.D.Thoreau Apr 15, 1858

I do not value any view of the universe into which man and the institutions of man enter very largely and absorb much of the attention. Man is but the place where I stand, and the prospect hence is infinite. It is not a chamber of mirrors which reflect me. When I reflect, I find that there is other than me. The universe is larger than enough for man's abode.

H.D.Thoreau, Apr 2, 1852

A man sits as many risks as he runs. Walden, p153

It is a vulgar error to suppose that you have tasted huckleberries who never plucked them.

Walden, p173

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now. Walden, p323

Only that day dawns to which we are awake. Walden

What is a winter unless you have
risen and gone abroad frequently before sunrise and by starlight. H.D.Thoreau, Jan 23, 1854

What we call wildness is a civilization other than our own.

H.D.Thoreau 2/16/1857