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

Hope is a walking dream. - Aristotle

He who limps is still walking. - Joan Rivers

Adversity is the first path to truth. - Lord Byron

Nature and wisdom never are at strife. - Plutarch

A father is a banker provided by nature. - French Proverb

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. - Frank Lloyd Wright

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule. - Michael Pollan

Hiking in undiscovered places is a lot of fun. - Karolina Kurkova

The family is one of nature's masterpieces. - George Santayana

The only foolproof path to wealth is inheritance. - Tom and David Gardner

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. - Lao Tzu

Nothing really sets human nature free but self-control. - Paul Bottome

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time. - Steven Wright

Mother is the home we come from. She is nature, soil, ocean. - Erich Fromm

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective. - Andre Gide

I love hiking, paddle boarding and listening to the Veronicas. - Bindi Irwin

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion. - Anatole France

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. - Albert Einstein

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom. - JRR Tolkien

The first and fundamental law of nature is to seek out peace and follow it. - Thomas Hobbes

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one. - Dolly Parton

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

You don't go walking into the proverbial lion's den lightly. You start with a good breakfast. - Jim Butcher

Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing. - Thomas Paine

Physics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and, if you're lucky, you get strange clues. - Lene Hau

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature. - Niels Bohr

It's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of. - David Foster Wallace

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man. - Joseph Addison

Each patient ought to feel somewhat the better after the physician's visit, irrespective of the nature of the illness. - Warfield Theobald Longcope

A convention is a splendid place to study human nature. Man in a crowd is quite a different creature than man acting alone. - William Jennings Bryan

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

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need. - Sara Teasdale

Art owes its origin to nature. This beautiful creation supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence. - Giorgio Vasari

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

When you are called to a sick man, be sure you know what the matter is — if you do not know, nature can do a great deal better than you can guess. - Nicholas de Belleville

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity. - John Muir

I enjoy my John Deere tractor quite a lot. It's a tool that I must use to keep Mother Nature at bay. I have all kinds of things encroaching on my property. - Les Claypool

Hit the sawdust trail, fall on your knees, and receive Christ as your Savior. Then walk out of this tent into the street, get hit by a Mack truck, and go straight to heaven. - Billy Sunday

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit. - Miriam Makeba