L'Hemisfèric - City of Arts and Sciences - Valencia, Spain
Re|flection
The more we learn the more the development of the earth and life upon it seems no less than miraculous.
B. Brown & L. Morgan
Lake Yellowstone - Yellowstone N.P, WY, USA
Tranquil|ity
Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
John Muir
Near Medicine Lake - Jasper N.P, Jasper, AB, Canada
Li|fe
Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
B.C. Forbes
Moulton Barn & Grand Tetons N.P - Moose, WY, USA
Ess|ence
“It is often remarked that nothing we do now will matter in a million years. But if that is true, then by the same token, nothing that will be the case in a million years matters now. In particular, it does not matter now that in a million years nothing we do now will matter .”
Thomas Nagel
Hohenwerfen Fortress (1075-78) - Salzach Valley, Austria
Mem|ory
We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.
Joan Didion
Horseshoe Bend - Colarado River, Page, USA
A|we
Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller
Ibn Battuta
Kumba - Busch Gardens, Tampa, FL, USA
Adrenal|ine
Happiness is not what you experience, but what you remember.
W.G.P
Icefields Parkway - Banff N.P, AB, Canada
Spirit Island - Maligne Lake, Jasper N.P, AB, Canada
Wald|einsamkeit
(German - The feeling of being alone in the Wilderness)
I went to 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.
Henry David Thoreau
Amphitheater - Bryce Canyon N.P, UT, USA
Grand|eur
A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.
Kahlil Gibran
Cadet Chapel - USAF Academy, Colorado Springs, CO, USA
Spirit|ual
One's destination is never a place, but always a new way of seeing things.
Henry Miller
Glacier Point Amphitheater - Yosemite N.P, CA, USA
Majest|ic
“The mountains are calling and I must go.”
John Muir
Canyon Village - Yellowstone N.P, WY, USA
Un|expected
There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who think there are two kinds of people and those who don't.
Robert Benchley
(Paraphrased)
Moraine Lake - Banff National Park, AB, Canada
Geriangerfjord from Flydalsjuvet - Stranda, Norway
Yū|gen
(Japanese - Profound Grace)
(A deep mysterious sense of the beauty of the universe)
"To watch the sun sink behind a flower clad hill.
To wander on in a huge forest without thought of return.
To stand upon the shore and gaze after a boat that disappears behind distant islands.
To contemplate the flight of wild geese seen and lost among the clouds....
And, subtle shadows of bamboo on bamboo."
Zeami Motokiyo
Alaskan Grizzly Bear - 450kg / 1000lbs
See|ing
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Henry David Thoreau
Skyline from Hancock Tower - Chicago, IL, USA
Metro|polis
To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.
Freya Stark
Eiffel Tower 1889 - Paris, France
In|spiration
Certain things capture your eye, but pursue only those that capture your heart.
Ancient Indian Proverb
Aletsch Glacier - Jungfraujoch, Switzerland
Fairview Mountain - Lake Louise, AB, Canada
Transcend|ent
...and only infinity surrounds you. You're intoxicated by the boundless space.
W. Somerset Maugham, The Razors Edge
Mono no Awar|e
物の哀れ
(Japanese - The Pathos of Things / Transience of Things)
Don't cry because it is over, smile because it happened.
Anonymous Proverb
Mont Saint-Michel - Normandy, France
Trans|formation
We become what we think about.
Earl Nightingale
Trollstigen Centre - Åndalsnes, Norway
Harmon|y
Cleverness is not wisdom
Euripides
Curious|er
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”
“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat.
“I don’t much care where–” said Alice.
“Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat.
“–so long as I get SOMEWHERE,” Alice added as an explanation.
“Oh, you’re sure to do that,” said the Cat, “if you only walk long enough.”
“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat.
“I don’t much care where–” said Alice.
“Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat.
“–so long as I get SOMEWHERE,” Alice added as an explanation.
“Oh, you’re sure to do that,” said the Cat, “if you only walk long enough.”
Lewis Carroll - Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Vernal Falls - Yosemite N.P, CA, USA
Dis|covery
When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then
William Least Heat Moon
Trollstigen (The Trolls Path) - Åndalsnes, Norway
Un|believable
Some things have got to be believed to be seen.
Ralph Hodgson
Happi|ness
We are never so happy or unhappy as we suppose.
François, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
Golden Gate Bridge - San Francisco, CA, USA
En|deavour
Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can.
Theodore Roosevelt
(Paraphrased)
The Strip & Bellagio Fountains - Las Vegas, NV, USA
Indulgen|ce
When on a trip, throw away shame.
Japanese Proverb
Humil|ity
Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
Mark Twain
Nā Pali Coast - Kauai, HI, USA
The Mittens - Monument Valley, Navajo Nation, AZ, USA
Kal|pa
(Sanskrit - The passing of time on a grand, cosmological scale)
Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.
Alan Keightley
Cinderella's Castle - WDW - Orlando, FL, USA
Imag|ine
It's no wonder truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Mark Twain
Cloud Gate "The Bean" - Millennium Park - Chicago, IL, USA
Percept|ion
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale