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Tumblr | Twitter “When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it is over, I don’t want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened, or full of argument. I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.” (Mary Oliver)
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Tumblr | Twitter Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks - on your body or on your heart - are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.” ― Anthony Bourdain
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Tumblr | Twitter "Man spends his entire life trying to make a living all the while forgetting to live.” (Mark Twain)
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Tumblr | Twitter “It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what’s changed, is you.” ― Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
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Tumblr | Twitter "We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.” (John Hope Franklin)
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Tumblr | Twitter "Just living is not enough..." (Hans Christian Andersen)
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Tumblr | Twitter "everything is possible for those who believe" (anon)
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Tumblr | Twitter "Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more." (Tony Robbins)
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Tumblr | Twitter "You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes." (Rabindranath Tagore)
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“Who lives, sees much. Who travels, sees more.” (Arab Proverb) Tumblr | Twitter
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inspired by this quote: “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” (Emerson) Tumblr | Twitter
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Tumblr | Twitter Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.” (Charles F. Kettering)
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Tumblr | Twitter “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely...” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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Tumblr | Twitter “To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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Tumblr | Twitter “Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be”
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"Today I live in the quiet, joyous expectation of good." (Ernest Holmen)
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Tumblr | Twitter "To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute." (Robert Updegraff)
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Tumblr | Twitter "Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.” ― Karle Wilson Baker
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Tumblr | Twitter "My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long." Buffalo Bill
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Tumblr | Twitter "My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life." (Hermann Hesse)
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Tumblr | Twitter “The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.” ― John Muir
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Tumblr | Twitter "The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters." (Audrey Hepburn)
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Tumblr | Twitter "The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure" (Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild)
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Tumblr | Twitter "It is not down in any map; true places never are." (Herman Melville)
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Tumblr | Twitter "No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow." (Lin Yutang)
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Tumblr | Twitter "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing." (John Keats, Endymion)
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"The greatest adventure is what lies ahead" (the hobbit) Tumblr | Twitter
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Tumblr | Twitter "And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see." (Donald Cargill)
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Tumblr | Twitter "Every man dies, but not every man truly lives" (Braveheart)
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Tumblr | Twitter "Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." (Lorraine Hansberry)
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Tumblr | Twitter "Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies." (Mother Teresa)
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"Happy trails, to you, until we meet again" (Dale Evans/Roy Rogers) Tumblr | Twitter
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"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning." (Albert Einstein) Tumblr | Twitter
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Tumblr | Twitter "What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? — it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-by. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies." (Jack Kerouac, On the Road)
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Tumblr | Twitter “By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility." (Alan Watts)
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Tumblr | Twitter “We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.” (Robert Louis Stevenson)
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Tumblr | Twitter "inspiration is everywhere: everywhere is inspiration" (anon)
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Tumblr | Twitter “Always remember to slow down in life; live, breathe, and learn; take a look around you whenever you have time and never forget everything and every person that has the least place within your heart.” (anon)
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Tumblr | Twitter "A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if hes does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.” (Arthur Schopenhauer)
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Tumblr | Twitter "There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it." (Charles Dudley Warner)
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Tumblr | Twitter "This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever; in its place is something that you have left behind...let it be something good." (anon)
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Tumblr | Twitter "All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together." (Jack Kerouac)
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Tumblr | Twitter “A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.” (H. Stanley Judd)
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Tumblr | Twitter "Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” (Mary Oliver)
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Tumblr | Twitter "Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.” (Rachel Carson)
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Tumblr | Twitter "Climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are nought without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a lifetime. Do nothing in haste; look well to each step; and from the beginning think what may be the end.” (Edward Whymper)
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Tumblr | Twitter “Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity...” (John Muir)
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Tumblr | Twitter "Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature." (Gerard De Nerval)
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Tumblr | Twitter "Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe." (Anatole France)
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Tumblr | Twitter “The contented person enjoys the scenery of a detour.” - Author Unknown
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Tumblr | Twitter "Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each." (Henry David Thoreau)
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Tumblr | Twitter "Adventure is worthwhile in itself." (Amelia Earhart)
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Tumblr | Twitter "We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.” (John Hope Franklin)
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Tumblr | Twitter "It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." (J. K. Rowling)
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Tumblr | Twitter “Don’t die without embracing the daring adventure your life is meant to be.” (Steve Pavlina)
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Tumblr | Twitter “The Wilderness holds answers to more questions than we have yet learned to ask.” (Nancy Wynne Newhall)
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Tumblr | Twitter "Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling." (Henry David Thoreau)
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Tumblr | Twitter "As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness." (George Aiken)
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Tumblr | Twitter "With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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Tumblr | Twitter “The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.” (Walter Bagehot)
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"Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living." (Miriam Beard) Tumblr | Twitter
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"Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night." (Rainer Maria Rilke) Tumblr | Twitter
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Tumblr | Twitter "If you never try, you'll never know what you are capable of." (John Barrow)
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Tumblr | Twitter "As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death." Leonardo da Vinci
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Tumblr | Twitter “Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.” (Annette Funicello)
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“You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!” - Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go! Tumblr | Twitter
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Tumblr | Twitter "in the end, you only regret the chances you did not take" (anon)
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Tumblr | Twitter "No one is in charge of your happiness but you" (Paulo Coelho[?])
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Tumblr | Twitter "The Earth, like the Sun, like the Air, belongs to everyone...and to no one." (Edward Abbey)
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Tumblr | Twitter "The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” (Eleanor Roosevelt)
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Tumblr | Twitter "A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour." -Author Unknown
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Tumblr | Twitter “[I] love to travel, But hate to arrive” (Albert Einstein)
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Tumblr | Twitter "We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment." (Hilaire Belloc)
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Tumblr | Twitter "What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?" (Robert H. Schuller)
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Tumblr | Twitter "Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves." Henry David Thoreau
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Tumblr | Twitter “Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.” (Horace)
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"Make voyages! Attempt them... there's nothing else." (Tennessee Williams) Tumblr | Twitter
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Tumblr | Twitter "I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." (Walden, Henry David Thoreau)
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Tumblr | Twitter “The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.” (Joseph Campbell)
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"without action you aren't going anywhere" (gandhi) Tumblr | Twitter
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Tumblr | Twitter "In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary." (aaron rose)
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Tumblr | Twitter "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe." (John Muir)
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Tumblr | Twitter "Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn."
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Tumblr | Twitter “We live for those fantastic and unreal moments of beauty which our thoughts may build upon the passing panorama of experience.” (Rockwell Kent)
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Tumblr | Twitter "Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit." (e. e. cummings)
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Tumblr | Twitter "Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." (Confucius)
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Tumblr | Twitter "an early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.” — Henry David Thoreau
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Tumblr | Twitter "And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." - Anais Nin
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Tumblr | Twitter "There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't" (William Trogdon)
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Tumblr | Twitter “I give you this to take with you: Nothing remains as it was. If you know this, you can begin again, with pure joy in the uprooting.” ― Judith Minty
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Tumblr | Twitter “there is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” (Paulo Coelho)
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Tumblr | Twitter "Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying" (Mason Cooley)
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Tumblr | Twitter "The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing." (Daniel J. Boorstin)
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Tumblr | Twitter "Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life." (Rachel Carson)
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'the best way to get something done is to begin' (anon) Tumblr | Twitter
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Tumblr | Twitter "The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible." (Oscar Wilde)
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Tumblr | Twitter "When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator." (Mahatma Gandhi)
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Tumblr | Twitter "The only source of knowledge is experience." (Albert Einstein)
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Tumblr | Twitter "Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking" (Antonio Machado)
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Tumblr | Twitter "Where man sees but withered leaves, God sees sweet flowers growing." - Albert Laighton
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Tumblr | Twitter "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." (Thoreau)
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"I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do." (Muir) Tumblr | Twitter
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Tumblr | Twitter "For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea." - e.e. cummings
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Tumblr | Twitter "I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright." (Thoreau)
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Tumblr | Twitter "I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in." (Muir)
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Tumblr | Twitter 'The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man.' (anon)
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"Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home." - Edith Sitwell Tumblr | Twitter
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"The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life" Tumblr | Twitter
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Tumblr | Twitter "Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence"
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"Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world" Tumblr | Twitter
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Tumblr | Twitter "in solitude, where we are least alone" - lord byron
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"I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night" (Sarah Williams) Tumblr | Twitter
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"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living."
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Tumblr | Twitter "We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."
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"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen." (Emerson)
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"A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease." - Muir Tumblr | Twitter
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Tumblr | Twitter "It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be."
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Tumblr | Twitter "If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living” (Henri Poincare)
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Tumblr | Twitter "First you need only look: Notice and honor the radiance of Everything about you... Play in this universe. Tend All these shining things around you: The smallest plant, the creatures and objects in your care. Be gentle and nurture. Listen...”
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"The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences." Tumblr | Twitter
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Tumblr | Twitter "God never made an ugly landscape, all that the sun shines on is beautful, so long as it is wild"
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Tumblr | Twitter "I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive."
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Tumblr | Twitter "Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair." - Khalil Gibran
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Tumblr | Twitter "you have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go"
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Tumblr | Twitter "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."
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Tumblr | Twitter "A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” - Lao Tzu
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Tumblr | Twitter "our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death"
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"Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca
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Tumblr | Twitter "Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."
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"What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us"
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Tumblr | Twitter "All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen."
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Tumblr | Twitter "If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living."
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Tumblr | Twitter "Every new day is another chance to change your life." - anon.
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Tumblr | Twitter "I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show." - Andrew Wyeth
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Tumblr | Twitter "Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of nature's darlings. Climb the mountains and get their good tidings, Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. "
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Tumblr | Twitter something completely different, with inspiration from branding10000lakes.com/ Perhaps a new mini-project could come from this...branding our national parks? I don't see why not..
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Tumblr | Twitter Escalante National Monument, Utah, September 2010
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Tumblr | Twitter Redwood National Park, California, August 2010
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Tumblr | Twitter Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, July 2010
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Tumblr | Twitter Pennsylvania, August 2011 -Quote by Charles Lamb
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Tumblr | Twitter Maine, July 2011 - Local Natives, Sun Hands
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Tumblr | Twitter Upstate New York, August 2011 -Alice Walker
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Tumblr | Twitter Glacier National Park, Montana, July 2010 - Robert Louis Stevenson
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Tumblr | Twitter Pennsylvania, August 2011 - Anais Nin ("We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”)
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Tumblr | Twitter somewhere in the U.S., summer 2010 - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Tumblr | Twitter Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, August 2010 - Dante Alighieri
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Tumblr | Twitter Fort Foster, Maine, July 2011 - Jalal ad-Din Rumi
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Tumblr | Twitter Saco River, Maine, July 2011 - Helen Keller
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Tumblr | Twitter Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, July 2010 - John Muir
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Tumblr | Twitter Redwood National Park, California, August 2010
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Tumblr | Twitter Big Bend National Park, July 2010 - Windmill Hill grafitti
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Tumblr | Twitter I Pin It Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado, July 2010
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Tumblr | Twitter | Pin It Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, August 2010
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Tumblr | Twitter Shenandoah National Park, July 2010 - John Muir
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Tumblr | Twitter Fort Foster, Maine, July 2011 - Hans Christian Andersen
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Tumblr | Twitter Hoh Rainforest, Olympic National Park, August 2010 - Anonymous
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Tumblr | Twitter North Cascades National Park, August 2010 - John Muir
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Tumblr | Twitter Outside the Grand Canyon, Utah, August 2010 - Jack Kerouac
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Tumblr | Twitter Outside Capital Reef National Park, Utah, August 2010 - John Muir
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