Layne.

"wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe."
~anatole france~
"If you look deep enough, you will sEe mUsiC;
the heart of nature being everywhere music."
~Thomas Carlyle~
"being able to remain on that dizzying crest - that is integrity and the rest is subterfuge."
~camus~
"since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? business is more powerful than politics and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer."
~anita roddick~
trailer for the 1 giant leap sequel
"the world is full of magical things
patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
~bertrand russell~
the pacific crest trail
"I went into the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
~thoreau~
the eden that almost killed me
goat rocks wilderness, washington
"there are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. sure, we can resist. but a knob that won't turn, a door that sticks and never budges, is a nuisance to the gods. the gods may kick in the jamb. worse, they may walk away in disgust, leaving us to hang dumbly from our tight hinges, deprived of any other chance in life to swing open into unnecessary risk and thus into enchantment."
~tom robbins~
“The heart is always right -
if there is a question of choosing between the mind and the heart -
because mind is a creation of the society. It has been educated.
You have been given it by the society, not by existence.
The heart is unpolluted.”
~Osho~
"To achieve the impossible,
it is precisely the unthinkable which must be thought."
~Tom Robbins~
...in solitary wonder...
lyman basin, north cascades, washington
"hard times and funky living can season the soul, true enough, but joy is the yeast that makes it rise."
~tom robbins~
grand prismatic spring, yellowstone
"much of the world's progress results from the fearless thought and speech of those who dare be in advance of their time - who are sneered at and shunned through their days of struggle and of trial as lunatics, dreamers, impracticables and visionaries - men of crotchets, of vagaries, or of 'isms.'"
~ New York Tribune, circa 1850 ~
"Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul
into believing in government and business."
~Tom Robbins~