( photo by Jason Cane )

( painting by John Martin )

“The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very” -Thomas Carlyle

 ( painting by Zdzislaw Beksinki )

“Tug on anything at all and you'll find it connected to everything else in the universe.” -John Muir

“Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.” -Charles Baudelaire

 ''The Clearsest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness''. 
   -John Muir     ( photo by Bryan Tulao )

( photo by Terry Marasco )

"It took more than three thousand years to make some of the trees in these western woods ... Through all the wonderful, eventful centuries since Christ's time—and long before that—God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand straining, leveling tempests and floods; but he cannot save them from fools."
— John Muir
(Photo by Sera-Sequoia National Forest)