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Manito Park Conservatory

Posted on May 22, 2023 | 11 comments

Botany, the eldest daughter of medicine. -Johann Hermann Baas

Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences. -Thomas Jefferson

I wandered away on a glorious botanical and geological excursion, which has lasted nearly fifty years and is not yet completed, always happy and free, poor and rich, without thought of a diploma or of making a name, urged on and on through endless, inspiring Godful beauty. -John Muir

Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight. -John Burroughs

Flower in the crannied wall,
I pluck you out of the crannies;—
I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,
Little flower—but if I could understand
What you are, root and all, and all in all,
I should know what God and man is. — Lord Alfred Tennyson

See the world around you!

Previous Manito Posts:

Manito Park and Botanical Gardens

Manito Park and Botanical Gardens – Part 2

Manito Park and Botanical Gardens – Part 3

Manito Park and Botanical Gardens – Part 4

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Walk to Wonderwood Park

Posted on May 10, 2023 | 15 comments

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. -Henry Van Dyke

Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. -John Muir

I have always believed in magic. I used to run into the woods as a little kid looking for witches. But I’m not superstitious, because I m not afraid of it. I see it as something really beautiful, and I wouldn’t want to live in a world without magic. -Anya Taylor-Joy

I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments! -Joanna Baillie

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God. -George Washington Carver

The woods are a place where children can go to think. Children gravitate towards these spaces. When I was a child it was nothing more than a scrubby little overhang under a rhododendron bush, but it was incredibly important to me. -Jay Griffiths

The woods were a boon; all too often, the forest offered danger and mystery. Yet it could be liberating. If you entered that wild place on its own terms, you might be accorded wisdom. -John Burnside

There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations. -Washington Irving

Mount Rainier Part 2

Posted on October 13, 2021 | 15 comments

The mountains are calling and I must go. – John Muir

*Clicking on a photo will give you a closer look!

You are not in the mountains. The mountains are in you. – John Muir

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it. – Andy Rooney

Yes, indeed, I did see a bear. It is the tiny black spot above the m in my watermark in the above photo. I zoomed in to try to get a closer look for all of posterity but, alas, I did not succeed.

How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof! In such places standing alone on the mountain-top it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make – leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents or piled stone – we all dwell in a house of one room – the world with the firmament for its roof – and are sailing the celestial spaces without leaving any track. — John Muir