Entries by tag: nature
When I first moved to Oregon I didn't make the trip down to the Wild & Scenic Rogue for quite a few years. I was busy with school, and then trying to start a practice. I was also quite pleased with how close Idaho is--for the whitewater paddler, there are few summer destinations more pleasing than Idaho. One time I applied for a Rogue permit in the lottery and got it, then gave it up because other things got in the way. Then, finally, I got on a summer trip down there and enjoyed it. On that trip I was rowing a "Clampitt" raft (stuff hanging off it all over) and following Pat's lines. This time I thought a lot about Nelbert, who died last week.
( Read more...Collapse )—Frederick Douglass
Sometimes
if you move carefully
through the forest,
breathing
like the ones
in the old stories,
who could cross
a shimmering bed of leaves
without a sound,
you come
to a place
whose only task
is to trouble you
with tiny
but frightening requests,
conceived out of nowhere
but in this place
beginning to lead everywhere.
Requests
to stop what
you are doing
right now,
and
to stop what you
are becoming
while you do it,
questions
that can make
or unmake
a life,
questions
that have patiently
waited for you,
questions
that have no right
to go away.
~ David Whyte
- John Muir
~ Byron Katie
To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic.
True wildness is a love of nature,
a delight in silence,
a voice free to say spontaneous things,
and an exuberant curiosity
in the face of the unknown.
~ Robert Bly
no angels, no heaven or hell.
There is only our natural world.
Religion is but myth and superstition
that hardens hearts
and enslaves minds.
--Inscription planned for a monument
to be installed on Arkansas Capitol grounds,
if the state persists displaying
the 10 commandments.
More than you wanted to know--unless you are into knowing about trees. =-]
---the Devil's Neuroscientist (alter ego of Sam Schwartzkopf)
in a 12/10/14 blogpost entitled: Why all research findings are false
https://devilsneuroscientist.wordpress.com/2014/12/10/why-all-research-findings-are-false/
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