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If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
John Lennon

My creation

My creation
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the golden road

the golden road
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Hey hey, hey, come right away
Come and join the party every day.

Well everybody's dancin' in a ring around the sun
Nobody's finished, we ain't even begun.
So take off your shoes, child, and take off your hat.
Try on your wings and find our where it's at.

Hey hey, hey, come right away
Come and join the party every day.

Take a vacation, fall out for a while,
Summer's comin' in, and it's goin' outta style
-------------honey, have yourself a ball
Cause your mother's down in Memphis, won't be back 'till the fall.

Hey hey, hey, come right away
Come and join the party every day.

Grateful Dead-- the golden road.

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We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.
Saint Augustine

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People always make war when they say they love peace.
David Herbert Lawrence

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
George Bernard Shaw

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If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
John Lennon

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I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
Albert Camus

Cold to the Touch- Simple Joy

Cold to the Touch- Simple Joy
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
John Muir

Nature In Action (slow)

Nature In Action (slow)
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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Victor Hugo

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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

snow day

snow day
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In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
John Muir

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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.
John Muir

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The poetry of the earth is never dead.
John Keats

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Nature does nothing uselessly.
Aristotle

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The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.
John Muir

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We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
Chuang Tzu

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Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trip to the snow

Trip to the snow
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roarI love not Man the less, but Nature more.
Lord Byron

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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
e. e. cummings

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I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.
Henry David Thoreau

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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
John Muir

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There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
Marshall McLuhan

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My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.
William Shakespeare

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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
John Muir

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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
Ansel Adams

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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Aristotle

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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
John Muir

IMG_2845
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Nature chose for a tool, not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries.
John Muir

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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
John Muir

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In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus

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Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher.
William Wordsworth

climb

climb
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
John Muir

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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
John Muir

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If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
Aristotle

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Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?
Virgil

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The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hollow Center

Hollow Center
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America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.
Norman Mailer

Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
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Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
Sun Tzu

ready set go

ready set go
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Games lubricate the body and the mind.
Benjamin Franklin

And yet he had no roots

And yet he had no roots
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Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.
Joseph Conrad