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“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, Our National Parks

“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in.”
― Wallace Stegner, The Sound of Mountain Water

“Broken tree branches
Scattered flowers
Bent street light poles
Cut electricity lines
Dead birds
But the weather is beautiful, and the breeze is refreshing…
My heart is full of an after-storm peace and tranquility…
The real tranquility is the one that follows not precedes the storm…

(July 1, 2015)”
― Louis Yako, أنا زهرة برية [I am a Wildflower]

“Embracing The Storm

The key to living through storms
Is embracing them

Taking every moment of beauty
Every sadness
And knowing it is your own

Leaving the ones that have passed
Letting go

Facing the newest times
With even the smallest bit of courage
Though it can be terrifying to try

Taking on the storm
And then watching it
Pass by”
― Alice Tyszka, Embracing The Storm