[dropcap]I[/dropcap] spent a few days over the Memorial Day holiday hiking in California’s eastern Sierra and recalled some of the things I’ve read about mountain and woodland walks. So here are a few photos and quotations the places brought to mind.
“The mountains are calling and I must go.”
~ John Muir
“In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.”
~ John Fowles
“The earth has music for those who listen.”
~ George Santayana
“To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.”
~ Helen Keller
“Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.”
~ Alan C. Kay
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
~ Lao Tzu
“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt and perhaps it says, ‘Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.'”
~ Lewis Carroll
