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

The obstacle is the path. - Zen Aphorism

He who limps is still walking. - Joan Rivers

Nature abhors a vacuum. And so do I. - Anne Gibbons

Adversity is the first path to truth. - Lord Byron

The power which resides in him is new in nature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory. - Ed Viesturs

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

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

Hiking's not for everyone. Notice the wilderness is mostly empty. - Sonja Yoerg

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once. - Woody Allen

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress. - Joseph Addison

Making mistakes reveals human nature. How one deals with them reveals character. - Unknown

Beauty is the first present nature gives to a woman and the first it takes away. - Fay Weldon

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

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

Middle Age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature. - Harold Coffin

Like all refugees, I am imprinted with the nature of loss and the necessity for reinvention. - Adrienne Clarkson

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called 'walking.' - George W. Bush

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient, whilst Mother Nature takes care of the cure. - Voltaire

Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell. - Dag Hammarskjold

When walking, you see things that you miss in a motor car or on the train. You give your mind space to ponder. - Tom Hodgkinson

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

So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

When you say justice, it doesn't have to be war. Justice could just be clearing a path for people to dream properly. - Kanye West

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

Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee. - Martin H. Fischer

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

Nature is one of the most underutilized treasures in life. It has the power to unburden hearts and reconnect to that inner place of peace. - Janice Anderson

Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Human psychology describes a bump on the bump. - Willard Quine

That which you persist in doing becomes easier to do. Not that the nature of the thing itself has changed, but that your ability to do it has increased. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Yes, I have doubted. I have wandered off the path, but I always return. It is intuitive, an intrinsic, built-in sense of direction. I seem always to find my way home. - Helen Hayes

For writers, handing a manuscript off to an editor is like walking into a parole hearing. You’ve done the time but wonder if it’s going to satisfy the judge. - Shandy L. Kurth

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

Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit, it is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future emotions from taking the normal path of discharge. - William James

You can enter yoga, or the path of yoga, only when you are totally frustrated with your own mind as it is. If you are still hoping that you can gain something through your mind, yoga is not for you. - Osho