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Beautiful photographs of our national parks and quotations by the greats!

“National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst." - Wallace Stegner

"People don't take trips, trips take people." - John Steinbeck

"Adventure is worthwhile." - Aesop

"To travel is to live." - Hand Christian Anderson

"I haven't been everywhere but it's on my list." - Susan Sontag

"Excuse me while I kiss the sky." Jimi Hendrix

"Love her but leave her wild." - Atticus

"Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road." - Walt Whitman

"There is something marvelous in all things of nature." - Aristotle

"Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life." - Omar Khayyam

"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose site of the shore." - Andre Gide

"You don't take a photograph, you make it." - Ansel Adams

"Do anything, but let it produce joy." - Walt Whitman

"Adventure is worthwhile." - Aesop

"Wildness is the preservation of the world." - Henry David Theroux

" I must be a mermaid ,  Rango . I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living." - Anaïs Nin

"Travel makes one modest.  You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.' — Gustave Flaubert

The sun shines not on us but in us." - John Muir

"The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy." - Henry Ward Beecher

"That's rule number one for a photographer , isn't it? Fill your frame?" - David Cronenberg

"Nature is not a place to visit. It is home." - Gary Snyder

' Everyone shines ,  given the right lighting .' — Susan Cain

'I could never resist the call of the open trail.' - Buffalo Bill

"She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess. A drop free of water." - Roman Payne

"The clearest way into the universe is through a forest of wilderness." - John Muir

"Never, ever underestimate the importance of having fun." - Randy Pausch

"Wilderness is more than a natural place , more than a place for recreation. It is a place for inspiration."  - National Park Service

"Deep roots are not reached by the frost." - J.R.R. Tolkien

" Being by the ocean is the greatest thing ." - Genesis Rodriguez

"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin." - William Shakespeare

"The cave that you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek." - Joseph Campbell

"We are not an island in the middle of the ocean. Things that go on around us have an effect on us." – Jon Jarvis

"There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm." - Theodore Roosevelt

"Keep your eyes in the stars and your feet on the ground." - Theodore Roosevelt

"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old." - Franz Kafka

"Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the lights." - Joyce Carol Oates

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"Cherish your wilderness." - Maxine Kumin

California ia always a good idea.

"Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong." - Winston Churchill

" I feel like I'm nothing without wildlife . They are the stars. I feel awkward without them." - Bindi Irwin

'Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn't mean to take.' - Angela N. Blount

"You don't have to be rich to travel well." _ Eugene Fodor

'Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.' - Charles Bukowksi

"The American west really attracts me because its romantic." - Ang Lee

'For time is the longest distance between two places.' - Tennessee Williams

'Nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.' - Bridget Riley

"What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well." - Antoine de Saint Exupery

"The map? I will first make it." - Patrick White

"I decided to fly through the air and live in the sunlight and enjoy life as much as I can." - Evel Knievel

'We all live downstream.' - David Suzuki

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'We do not remember days, we remember moments.' - Cesare Pavese

'Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.' - Albert Einstein

"We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls." – Anais Nin

'Forget not that the Earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.' Khalil Gibran

"The clearest way into the universe is through a forest of wilderness." – John Muir

"Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave but not our hearts." – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

'The sun shines not on us but in us.' - John Muir

"There are always flowers for those who want to see them." – Henri Matisse

"Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you." – Frank Lloyd Wright

'Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and the shadows will fall behind you.' – Walt Whitman

"Life isn't a matter of milestones but of moments." - Rose Kennedy

'Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.' - Seneca

'In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.' – John Muir

"Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors." Joseph Campbell

"Details create the big picture." - Sanford I. Weill

"Be careful going in search of adventure, it is rediculously easy to find." - William Least Heat-Moon

"So the darkness shall be the light and the stillness the dancing." - T.S. Eliot

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"Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road." - Jack Kerouac

"We all live downstream." - David Suzuki

"There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness. That can reveal its mystery, its melancholy, and its charm."

"Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure." - Antonio Porchia

"Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing." - Hunter S. Thompson

"I go to nature to be soothed and be healed, and to have my sense put back in order." - John Burroughs

"Shine like the whole universe is yours." - Rumi

"Stuff your eyes with wonder... live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world." - Ray Bradbury

"When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands..." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference." - Dr. Jane Goodall

"Strong and content I travel the open road." - Walt Whitman

Yosemite, California

"Blue oblivion, largely lit, smiled and smiled at me." - William Rose Benet

"There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein

"Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost." - Erol Ozanre

'Sure, give me an adventure and I'll ride it.' Melissa Auf der Maur | MAdM Official

'To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.' - Lao Tzu

"It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters, in the end." - Ernest Hemingway

"She was a free bird; queen of the world and laughing." - Roman Payne

"He only earns his freedom and his life who takes them every day by storm." - Wolfgang von Goethe

'Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddam mountain.' - Jack Kerouac

"There are nights when the wolves are slient and only the moon howls.' - George Carlin

"Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you..." - Roald Dahl

"It is impossible to watch the sunset and not dream." - Bern WIlliams

"Great things are done when men and mountains meet." - William Blake

"There is nowhere to go but everywhere" - Jack Kerouac

'Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.' - Michelangelo

"If happiness is the goal - and it should be - then advnetures should be a top priority." - Richard Branson

"People forget years and remember moments." - Ann Beatte

"The Earth laughs in flowers." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Paradise isn't a place. It's a feeling." - L. Boyer

"I've been things and seen places." - Mae West

"The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is, at last, to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land." - G.K. Chesterton

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you." - Walt Whitman

"The most powerful weapon on Earth is the human soul on fire." - Ferdinand Foch

"In wilderness lies the hope of the world." - John Muir

"Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift." - Albert Einstein

"When you leave a beautiful place, you carry it with you wherever you go." - Alexandra Stoddard

"In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion." - Albert Camus

"The sky lovingly smiles on the Earth and her children." - Henry Morton Stanley

"The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever." - Jacques-Yves Cousteau

"Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud." - Maya Angelou

"Roads were made for journeys not destinations." - Confucious

"Wherever you go becomes part of you somehow." - Anita Desai

"The morning wind forever blows... but few are the ears that hear it." - Henry David Thoreau

"Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe." - Anatole France

"There is always one more track to follow, one more mirage to explore." - Rosita Forbes

"Don't stop. Keep right on going. Go see what's over the next hill. And the one after that. And the one after that." - Wally Byam

“Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
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— William Shakespeare

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