The World, Nature & Travel

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.  Mark Twain

If you look like your passport photo, you're too ill to travel. Will Kommen

On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners. George Mikes

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children. Haida Indian Saying

My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky. William Wordsworth

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
-Joyce Kilmer-

Always remember that this whole thing was started by a mouse. Walt Disney

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. Kahlil Gibran

People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering. St. Augustine

Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion. Leigh Hunt

Nature is commanded by obeying her. Francis Bacon

In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place. Francis Bacon

Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish. Thomas Carlyle

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress. Charles John Juffam Dickens

Nature and revelation are alike God's books; each may have mysteries, but in each there are plain practical lessons for everyday duty. Tryon Edwards