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“If nature has a soul, it feels like it must be bound up in the bark and sap of our forests. There, older, wiser sentinels stand in silent judgment. Not just the ancient sequoias and redwoods—even regular pine and birch trees outlast us. Every tree is a witness tree—they see how we spend our time on earth, what we take and what we give.”
― Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park
― Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park
“I wanted a national park kind of love. Something that felt different and special compared to everything else surrounding it. Some thing that was fun and inspiring. Some thing that felt like it was worth guarding and protecting forever.”
― Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park
― Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park
“It occurred to me that part of the reason I’d seen so much debate about the year’s first sunrise, and not its last sunset, was that our beginnings always seem more important than our endings. In life, we can often control how things start. Endings are elusive and amorphous and uncertain.”
― Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park
― Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park
“Our ability to see a value in preserving life that extends beyond our immediate self-interest may be what makes us most human.”
― Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park
― Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park
“So abundant and novel are the objects of interest in a pure wilderness that unless you are pursuing special studies it matters little where you go, or how often to the same place. Wherever you chance to be always seems at the moment of all places the best; and you feel that there can be no happiness in this world or in any other for those who may not be happy here.”
― Travels in Alaska
― Travels in Alaska
Jamie’s 2025 Year in Books
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