Just because I love the mountains and think this poster from a concert last year is beautiful...
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.
~John Muir
It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it's still here. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, encounter the grizz, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for awhile and contemplate the precious stillness, that lovely, mysterious and awesome space.
~Edward Abbey
For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
~Isaiah 55
It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
~Helen Keller
God shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment. The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness. God shall judge the poor of the people, God shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.
They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations. God shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth. In God’s days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth. God shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.
~Psalm 72
As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens and get as near the heart of the world as I can.
~John Muir
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As a commercial, I will note that February 17th is Kentucky's annual I Love the Mountains Day that we've been celebrating these last several years. It is a time where we meet in Frankfort (state capitol, but you all knew that...) to ask our legislators to do right by our beloved mountains and end the corrupting practice of mountain top removal.
More information can be found about the event here.
5 comments:
i especially love the Edward Abbey quote, don't just fight for the mountains but get out and enjoy them--absolutely! amen.
so true about much of our lives.
we don't have mountains in MO, just some large hills but they need to be enjoyed as well--thanks for reminding me!
The rest of that Abbey quote:
. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound people with their hearts in a safe deposit box and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this: You will outlive the bastards.
We don't have really big mountains here in Kentucky and certainly no mountains in Louisville, but we do have knobs and they may not be majestic, but they're majestic enough.
Beautiful thoughts.
Dan,
A friend of mine wrote an article California's Fight for Water. I thought it might be of interest to you.
Thanks!
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