Crossroads Hiking Club: Hike #13
Francis Point & Beaver Island, Madeira Park

Nature and wisdom never are at strife. - Plutarch

Nature creates nothing without a purpose. - Aristotle

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? - Henry Ward Beecher

Hiking and happiness go hand in hand (or foot in boot). - Diane Spicer

Mouse: An animal which strews its path with fainting women. - Ambrose Bierce

You have to sniff out joy. Keep your nose to the joy trail. - Buffy Sainte-Marie

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

If you're already walking on thin ice, you might as well dance. - Proverb

Trekking means a travelling experience with a thrilling excitement. - Amit Kalantri

Followers will never know how hard the leader tries to create a path. - Unknown

Light is the greatest disinfectant in nature and also in organizations. - Stephen Covey

Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration. - Pat Conroy

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in. - Bill Bradley

The Dark Side of the Force is the pathway to many abilities some consider to be. - Senator Palpatine

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests. - Thornton Wilder

Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak. - Unknown

Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces pent up within him. - Ernst Jones

There are other ways of recognizing the existence of God, through nature for instance. - Billy Graham

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. - Eleanor Roosevelt

I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo. - Anne Fadiman

I cannot work; I cannot speak; I cannot live or love as I should, unless God's wisdom lights my path. - David Jeremiah

Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely. - Hawkeye

Dorothy was so happy to wake up in Kansas. Not I! I'd have looked for another cyclone and stood in its path! - Vivian Vance

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. - Walt Disney

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. - John Muir

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress. - Barack Obama

Menopause: because nature decided that pregnancy, labor, delivery, breastfeeding, and stretch marks wasn't enough. - Unknown

I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and this trial. - Winston Churchill

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. - George MacDonald

The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases. - Edward Jenner

The great outdoors is a theme with me; a walking holiday in Scotland is perfect - Culloden and the forests of Aviemore are both favourites. - Erin O'Connor

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding. - Joseph Addison

To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest. - Joe-kster

There is not better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. - Jean Giraudoux

You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we still don't know where she is. - Ellen DeGeners

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. - Joseph Addison

DNA is nature's own nanoengineered computer and it is well suited for solving cominatorial problems. Combining attributes is, after all, the essence of genetics. - Ray Kurzeil

So many come to the sickroom thinking of themselves as men of science fighting disease and not as healers with a little knowledge helping nature to get a sick man well. - Auckland Geddes

Nature it seems is the popular name for Milliards and Milliards and Milliards of particles playing their infinite game of Billiards and Billiards and Billiards and Billiards. - Piet Hein

There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human - in not having to be just happy or just sad - in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time. - C. JoyBell