“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, “Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”
― Lewis Carroll
Storm King Mountain
Dunderberg Mountain
Wheelabrator Westchester
Iona Island
Bear Mt. Inn
Bear Mt.
“We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”
-Thoreau
Hiking on New Years Day.
White flakes falling fast,
Pristine wonder on broken
Limb, savor the peace,
Stillness echoing fluffy
Perfection, my heart is free
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
-Marcus Aurelius
“I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.”
-J. B. Priestley
“Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.”
― Henry David Thoreau
I love the morning. Without a doubt it is the best time of every day. The peace, quiet and possibility sets the tone for what lies ahead. The success of every day is what you make it.
“The dawn of beauty always comes after night.”
― Sorin Cerin
“Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.”
― Alfred Jarry
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