Appalachian Treks

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.  --Dan Millman (b.1946) author.

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It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.  --Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British Prime Minister.  Above: Butler Memorial Bri...

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How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in? --Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish writer.

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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears. --Glenn Clark (1882-1956) author. Above: American Wintergreen...

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Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.  -- Albert Einstein Above: Pine Ridge Falls. To the left is a photo of the forest se...

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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. --Elbert Hubbard Above: Lower Higgins Creek Falls (detail)

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Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads you to wisdom.  --Buddha  Took advantage of the warm temperatures yesterday by going for a hike a...

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I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colours are richer, and it is tinged with a little sor...

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Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. --Albert Einstein   Here are some recent photos from Rocky Fork State Park. The tr...

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Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. --Frederick Buechner (1926-2022) Above: Autumn Road near the Nolichucky River, Erwin, TN.

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  People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within. ~Elisa...

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No Pain, No Rain, No Maine. –Appalachian Trail saying.    Talking with those AT thru hikers that pass through this region in early spring, there are days they wake up to knee-deep sno...

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Never fear shadows. They simply mean there’s a light shining somewhere nearby. --Ruth E. Renkel Hiked up to the summit of Unaka Mountain yesterday around sunset. Such an eerily beautiful...

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  If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own. --Henry Ford (186...

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  The great lesson…is that the sacred in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's back yard. --Abraham Maslow (1908-197...

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  Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive. --Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) Scottish author. 

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It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. --Seneca (c. 4 BC – AD 65) Roman philosopher and statesman.   The road to the top is narrow and difficult. But worth it. Not...

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All in the dark we grope along, And if we go amiss We learn at least which path is wrong, And there is gain in this. We do not always win the race By only running right; We have to tread...

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I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know. --Mitch Albom (b.1958) author. 

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  All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. --Henry Miller (1891-1980) American Author and Writer.  Above: Poplar tree leaves ...

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Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present. --Bill Keane (1922-2011) American cartoonist. What a gift! The eight mile long Kingsp...

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The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also. --Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813-1897) Beautiful bluebell blooms blanket a byway at Wi...

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Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. --Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-20...

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Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us. --Martin Luther (1483-1546) Ge...

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If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success. --James Cameron (b.1954) Canadian filmmaker and explorer. Above: Appalachian Trail ...

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