Heaven

It floats among us like a cloud
and is the realest thing we know
and the least to be captured,
the least to be possessed by anybody for themself.
It is like a grain of mustard seed,
which you cannot see
among the crumbs of earth where it lies.
It is like the reflection of the trees on the water.
~ Wendell Berry in Jayber Crow

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Wide Mountain Valley Flood Plain

It floats among us like a cloud
and is the realest thing we know
and the least to be captured,
the least to be possessed by anybody for themself.
It is like a grain of mustard seed,
which you cannot see
among the crumbs of earth where it lies.
It is like the reflection of the trees on the water.
~ Wendell Berry in Jayber Crow

Song-Film: Heart Of This Wild Land
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Heaven Walks Among Us

Heaven walks among us ordinarily
muffled is such triple and tenfold disguises
that the wisest are deceived,
and no one perceives the days to be gods.
~ Emerson

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River Mountain Evening

Heaven walks among us ordinarily
muffled is such triple and tenfold disguises
that the wisest are deceived,
and no one perceives the days to be gods.
~ Emerson

Song-Film: Heart Of This Wild Land
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Home

Home is the place where,
when you have to go there,
They have to take you in.
~ Robert Frost in Death of a Hired Man

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Photo ID: 022, FW07, 46

Sunset Orange Dancing Clouds

Home is the place where,
when you have to go there,
They have to take you in.
~ Robert Frost in Death of a Hired Man

Song-Film: Heart Of This Wild Land
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Home Is Place, Geography, and Psyche

Home is place, geography, and psyche;
it’s a matter of survival and safety,
a condition of attachment and self-definition.
It’s where you learn from your parents
and repeat to your children
all the stories of what it means
to belong to the place and people of your ken.
~ Barbara Kingsolver

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Orange Sunset Forest Reflection - A Fond Good Evening

Home is place, geography, and psyche;
it’s a matter of survival and safety,
a condition of attachment and self-definition.
It’s where you learn from your parents
and repeat to your children
all the stories of what it means
to belong to the place and people of your ken.
~ Barbara Kingsolver

Song-Film: Heart Of This Wild Land
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What A Country Chooses To Save

What a country chooses to save
is what a country chooses to say about itself.
~ Mollie Beattie

 

Title: What A Country Chooses To Save
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Photo ID: 364, FW11, 03

Conservation Is An Act Of Democracy

 Conservation is an act of democracy, the greatest good
for the greatest numbers for the longest time.
Surely the protection of these natural treasures is
fundamental to 'homeland security'.
~ Terry Tempest Williams

Title: Conservation Is An Act Of Democracy
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Wilderness Crops - Spiritual Values

 Wilderness has been characterized as barren and unproductive:
little can be grown in its sand and rock.
But the crops of wilderness have always been its spiritual values,
silence and solitude, a sense of awe and gratitude,
able to be harvested by any traveler who visits.
~David Douglas

Title: Wilderness Crops - Spiritual Values
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Photo ID: 367, FW11, 09

Culture Reflects The Rich Diversity Of Wilderness

 Wilderness is the raw material out of which humans
have hammered the artifact called civilization;
the rich diversity of the world's cultures reflects
a corresponding diversity on the wilds that gave them birth.
~ Aldo Leopold

Title: Culture Reflects The Rich Diversity Of Wilderness
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Photo ID: 368, FW11, 11

Account For Wild Things

 The wild things of this earth are not ours to do with as we please.
They have been given to us in trust and we must account for them
to the generations which will come after us and audit our accounts.
~ William T Hornaday

Title: Account For Wild Things
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Photo ID: 369, FW11, 13

Sing Wilderness Love Songs

Title: Sing Wilderness Love Songs
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Giving Liberty To Others

 Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless
you are willing to give it to others.
~ William Allen White

Title: Giving Liberty To Others
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Focus Clearly On The Wonders

 The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders
and realities of the universe about us,
the less taste we shall have for destruction
~ Rachel Carson

Title: Focus Clearly On The Wonders
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The Wild Things Of This Earth

 The wild things of this earth are not ours to do with as we please.
They have been given to us in trust and we must account for them
to the generations which will come after us and audit our accounts.
~ William T Hornaday

Title: The Wild Things Of This Earth
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Photo ID: 373, FW11, 21

Alliance With Nature Is A Cornerstone Of Our True Humanity

 When we begin to consider Nature as something to be robbed greedily
like an unguarded treasure, or used as an enemy, we put ourselves
in thought outside of Nature of which we are inescapably a part.

Be it storm and flood, hail and fire or the yielding furrow and
the fruitful plain, and alliance it is and that alliance is
a cornerstone of our true humanity.
~ Henry Beston, Northern Farm

Title: Alliance With Nature Is A Cornerstone Of Our True Humanity
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Photo ID: 068, FW11, 22

Things That Matter

Our lives begin to end the day
we become silent
about the things that matter.
 ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Title: Things That Matter
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Photo ID: 375, FW11, 25

Defend And Preserve It

 It is not enough to understand the natural world,
the point is to defend and preserve it.
 ~ Edward Abbey

Title: Defend And Preserve It
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Photo ID: 376, FW11, 27

Rich In Proportion

 One is rich in proportion
to the number of things which
one can afford to let alone.
 ~ Henry David Thoreau

Title: Rich In Proportion
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Experience The Beautiful Mysterious

 The most beautiful thing
we can experience
is the mysterious.
~ Albert Einstein

Title: Experience The Beautiful Mysterious
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Photo ID: 363, FW11, 01

Beauty As Well As Bread

 Everybody needs beauty as well as bread,
places to play in and places to pray in,
where nature may heal and cheer and give strength
to body and soul.
~ John Muir from "The Yosemite" (1912)

Title: Beauty As Well As Bread
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Photo ID: 379, FW11, 33

Scientists Have Discovered

Scientists have discovered that the small brave act of cooperating
with another person makes the brain light up with quiet joy.

' New York Times, July 23, 2002

Title: Scientists Have Discovered
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Photo ID: 381, FW11, 37

Oh What A Life - Song - Film

Photos: Oh What A Life

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Discovered Events

Not every event can be planned or shared.

Some can only be discovered.

~ Brian Beffort in essay

Getting to Know Her

from the collection Wild Nevada

Notes: WW April 10, 2009

Quote Title: Discovered Events
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Photo ID: 261, FW04, 1

Magnificence Along Trail With Ferns In Fir Forest

Not every event can be planned or shared.
Some can only be discovered.
~ Brian Beffort in essay
Getting to Know Her
from the collection Wild Nevada

Song-Film: Oh What A Life

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Life Is A Daring Adventure

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Security does not exist in nature,

nor do the children of humanity as a whole experience it.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

~ Helen Keller

Notes: WW #4 2006

Quote Title: Life Is A Daring Adventure
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Photo ID: 167, FW04, 2

Two Owls Look Out

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security does not exist in nature,
nor do the children of humanity as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
~ Helen Keller

Song-Film: Oh What A Life

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Explore - Dream - Discover

Twenty years from now

you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do

than by the ones you did do.

So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor.

Catch the trade winds in your sails.

Explore. Dream. Discover.

~ Mark Twain

Notes: WW email #6 2004

Quote Title: Explore - Dream - Discover
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Photo ID: 262, FW04, 3

Ancient Trees Look Out To Young Sunlit Trees

Twenty years from now
you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do
than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
~ Mark Twain

Song-Film: Oh What A Life

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A Trip Takes Us

We find after years of struggle that

we do not take a trip;

a trip takes us.

~ John Steinbeck, from Travels with Charlie

Quote Title: A Trip Takes Us
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Photo ID: 168, FW04, 4

Owl Flying Free

We find after years of struggle that
we do not take a trip;
a trip takes us.
~ John Steinbeck, from Travels with Charlie

Song-Film: Oh What A Life
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Adventures

Adventures are things that go wrong that you live to tell about.

~ Walkin’ Jim Stoltz

Quote Title: Adventures
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Photo ID: 263, FW04, 5 V02

Owl Turns Head To Look

Adventures are things that go wrong
 that you live to tell about.
~ Walkin’ Jim Stoltz

Song-Film: Oh What A Life 
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Interest Your Heart In Everything

A large volume of adventures

may be grasped within this little span of life,

by one who interests their heart in everything.

~ Laurence Sterne

Quote Title: Interest Your Heart In Everything
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Photo ID: 169, FW04, 6

Cedars Stand

 

A large volume of adventures
may be grasped within this little span of life,
by one who interests their heart in everything.
~ Laurence Sterne

Song-Film: Oh What A Life

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Passion For Adventure

So many people live within unhappy circumstances

and yet will not take the initiative

to change their situation because they are conditioned

to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism,

all of which may appear to give one peace of mind,

but in reality nothing is more dangerous

to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future.

The very basic core of a one's living spirit is their passion for adventure.

The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence

there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon,

for each day to have a new and different Sun.

~ Christopher McCandless

Quote Title: Passion For Adventure
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Photo ID: 264, FW04, 7

Owl In Silence

So many people live within unhappy circumstances
and yet will not take the initiative
to change their situation because they are conditioned
to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism,
all of which may appear to give one peace of mind,
but in reality nothing is more dangerous
to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future.

The very basic core of a one's living spirit is their passion for adventure.

The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence
there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon,
for each day to have a new and different Sun.
~ Christopher McCandless

Song-Film: Oh What A Life

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Photo ID: 264, FW04, 7

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Being In Wonder Makes Art Inevitable

Art is simply a result of expression during right feeling.

It's a result of a grip on the fundamentals of nature,

the spirit of life, the constructive force, the secret of growth,

a real understanding of the relative importance of things, order, balance.

Any material will do. After all, the object is not to make art,

but to be in the wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

~ Robert Henri in The Art Spirit

Quote Title: Being In Wonder Makes Art Inevitable
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Photo ID: 170, FW04, 8

Looking Up Through Tall Autumn Trees

Art is simply a result of expression during right feeling.
It's a result of a grip on the fundamentals of nature,
the spirit of life, the constructive force, the secret of growth,
a real understanding of the relative importance of things, order, balance.
Any material will do. After all, the object is not to make art,
but to be in the wonderful state which makes art inevitable.
~ Robert Henri in The Art Spirit

Song-Film: Oh What A Life

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Cultivate Being Alone

The primary distinction of the artist

is that they must actively cultivate that state

which most people, necessarily, must avoid:

the state of being alone.

~ James Baldwin

Quote Title: Cultivate Being Alone
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Photo ID: 265, FW04, 9

Wild Salmon Among Rocks

The primary distinction of the artist
is that they must actively cultivate that state
which most people, necessarily, must avoid:
the state of being alone.
~ James Baldwin

Song-Film: Oh What A Life

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All Good Things Come By Grace And Art

All good things --- trout as well as eternal salvation ---

come by grace and grace comes by art

and art does not come easy.

~ Norman Maclean

Quote Title: All Good Things Come By Grace And Art
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Photo ID: 171, FW04, 10

Wild Salmon Looks Out

All good things --- trout as well as eternal salvation ---
come by grace and grace comes by art
and art does not come easy.
~ Norman Maclean

Song-Film: Oh What A Life 
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The Perspective Spirit And Relations Of Great Art

Here are worlds of experience

beyond the world of aggressive man,

beyond history, beyond science.

The mood and qualities of nature and

the relations of great art

are difficult to define; we can grasp them

only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.

~ Ansel Adams

Quote Title: The Perspective Spirit And Relations Of Great Art
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Photo ID: 266, FW04, 11

Wild Salmon Reds Spawning

Here are worlds of experience
beyond the world of aggressive man,
beyond history, beyond science.
The mood and qualities of nature and
the relations of great art
are difficult to define; we can grasp them
only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.
~ Ansel Adams

Song-Film: Oh What A Life
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Secret Of The Creative Life

The secret of the creative life

is often to feel at ease with your own embarrassment.

We are paid to take risks, to look silly.

Some people, like racing car drivers

are paid to take risks in a more concrete way.

We are paid to take risks in an emotional way.

The film critic is like a medical examiner.

He gets the cadaver on the table, he opens it up,

and tries to figure out why it died.

The filmmaker is like the pregnant mother

who is simply trying nurture this thing.

You have to keep the medical examiner

out of the delivery room because he will get in there

and he will kill that baby.

~ Paul Schrader, interviewed by Terry Gross, Fresh Air (from Heron Dance)

Quote Title: Secret Of The Creative Life
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Photo ID: 172, FW04, 12



 

Salmon's Face

The secret of the creative life
is often to feel at ease with your own embarrassment.
We are paid to take risks, to look silly.
Some people, like racing car drivers
are paid to take risks in a more concrete way.
We are paid to take risks in an emotional way.
The film critic is like a medical examiner.
He gets the cadaver on the table, he opens it up,
and tries to figure out why it died.
The filmmaker is like the pregnant mother
who is simply trying nurture this thing.
You have to keep the medical examiner
out of the delivery room because he will get in there
and he will kill that baby.
~ Paul Schrader, interviewed by Terry Gross,
Fresh Air (from Heron Dance)

Song-Film: Oh What A Life 
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Mastery By Force Of Need

Anyhow, all work that is worth while

has got to be memory work.

Even with a model before you in the quiet light of a studio

there must come a time when you have

what you want to know from the model,

when the model had better be sitting behind you than before,

and unless such a time as this does come,

it is not likely the work will get below the surface.

It would be easy to divide artists into two classes:

those who grow so much within themselves

as to master technique by the force of their need,

and those who are mastered by technique and become stylists.

~ Robert Henri, from The Art Spirit (from Heron Dance)

Quote Title: Mastery By Force Of Need
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Photo ID: 267, FW04, 13