"Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle. The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power whirls.

"I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree." —Joyce Kilmer

"You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told." —Terence Mckenna

"We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah,

"There's something wonderfully healing in Arizona air." —Zane Grey

Look at these cool cats.

"They sat in the floor of a long room with a high ceiling and smokestained vigas while a woman and a girl brought bowls of guisado made from goat and a clay plate heaped with blue tortillas and they

"A round, red rock stood isolated, marking the end of the barren plain, and farther on were other round rocks, all isolated, all of different shape. They resembled huge grazing cattle. But as he gazed,

On this day 75 years ago, Albert Hofmann took the first intentional dose of LSD and experienced the first ever acid trip. While tripping, he went for a ride on his bicycle. It's for that reason which we

"Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven." —Rabindranath Tagore

"If we lose our wilderness, we have nothing left, in my opinion, worth fighting for." —Aldo Leopold

"Homage to you, O ye divine Lords of things, ye holy beings, whose seats are veiled! Homage to you, O ye Lords of Eternity, whose forms are concealed, whose sanctuaries are mysteries, whose places

"Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice. You lived first, and you are older than all need, older than all prayer. All things belong to you — the

"The desert preserves. What other lands destroy, the desert keeps. It accepts dead things, holds them close, and draws away the rot that would destroy; given time, it mummifies or crystalizes."

"They set forth in a crimson dawn where sky and earth closed in a razorous plane. Out there dark little archipelagos of cloud and the vast world of sand and scrub shearing upward into the shoreless

to enter into eternity Sit quietly on the ground Lay back if you wish And for a moment look around If the sky is blue, breathe deeply If black, breathe mild If pink, feel silence If red, feel wild Feel

Peepo (snowshoe) and Lucy (Siamese/Thai)

I shivered in those solitudes when I heard the voice of the salt in the desert. Pablo Neruda

"The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom." —Edward Abbey

"Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread." —Edward Abbey