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

The obstacle is the path. - Zen Proverb

He who limps is still walking. - Joan Rivers

Nature can do more than physicians. - Oliver Cromwell

Nature creates nothing without a purpose. - Aristotle

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature. - Gerard De Nuewal

He loves nature in spite of what it did to him. - Forrest Tucker

The elephant does not limp when walking on thorns. - African Proverb

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

The open door does not necessarily mean the easy pathway. - G. Campbell Morgan

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy. - Isaac Newton

If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere. - Laura I Wilder

You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses. - Edwin L Cole

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty. - Mark Twain

Go often to the house of a friend, for weeds choke the unused path. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy. - Sir Peter Ustinov

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? - Charles Baudelaire

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

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. - Helen Keller

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people. - Carrot Top

Dreams come true; without that possibility nature would not incite us to have them. - John Updike

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music. - Thomas Carlyle

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will. - George Lucas

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who'd lost three husbands. - Kin Hubbard

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

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. - Hannah Arendt

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

It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path. - Paulo Coelho

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

When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love. - Jordan Belfort

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. - C S Lewis

I still play hockey every now and then, and I still golf. But my biggest exercise is walking my big dog in the park every day. - Michael J. Fox

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

Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn't the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit... unnatural? - Bill Hicks

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

Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing 'Embraceable You' in spats. - Woody Allen

The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment. - Earl Nightingale

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

I used to be such a militant city-ist, but more and more I've seen forests and nature and oceans, and I don't know any more if this is the awesomest way to live. - Regina Spektor

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