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| Photo by MWildHansen Young Chamois Leobnermauer, Austrian Alps |
Go out, go out I beg of you And taste the beauty of the wild.
Behold the miracle of the earth With all the wonder of a child.
8-22-2011
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| Mike Wild, Lake Michigan Photo by MWildHansen |
He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sun rise
~ William Blake
6-25-2011
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| Rusty can and wild lupines Photo M Wild Hansen |
"Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful..."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
5-30-2011
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| The hill pines were sighing, O'ercast and chill was the day. A mist in the valley lying, Blotted the pleasant May. -Robert Bridges, English poet Photo: Chippewa Lagoon by M Wild Hansen |
5-29-2011
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| Photo- M Wild Hansen There is a pleasure in the pathless woods; There is a rapture on the lonely shore; I love not man the less, but Nature more. -Lord Byron |
5-24-11
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| Blossom by blossom the spring begins. -Algernon Charles Swinburne |
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| Photos MWildHansen Rhododendron, May 2011 |
5-13-2011
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| photo by M Wild Hansen Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning -William Arthur Ward |
5-1-2011
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| Photo by Erich Schoahs |
One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese,
cleaving the murk of March thaw is the spring.
-Aldo Leopold, American ecologist (1887-1948)
4-17-2011
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| Dave, Zach Pentwater, 2007 |
4-15-2011
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| Photo by M Wild Hansen April 2011 The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire. Pamela Hansford Johnson |
4-9-11
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| Photo by M Wild Hansen |
"The elements that unite to make the Grand Canyon the most sublime
spectacle in nature are multifarious and exceedingly diverse."
~ John Wesley Powell (1834-1902)
4-8-11
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| Packard Plant, the long abandoned luxury auto assembly factory in Detroit Photo M Wild Hansen |
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy;
for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves;
we must die to one life before we can enter another.
~ Anatole France
3-27-2011
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| Ed Wild c. 1982 |
We do not stop playing because we grow old.
We grow old because we stop playing.
~George Bernard Shaw
We grow old because we stop playing.
~George Bernard Shaw
3-19-2011
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| Photo M Wild Hansen |
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.
-Mark Overby
3-15-2011
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| Photo by M Wild Hansen |
We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea,
whether it is to sail or to watch
- we are going back from whence we came.
- we are going back from whence we came.
John F. Kennedy
3-12-2011
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| Photo by MWildHansen Linda Hansen, Batchawana Bay |
Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind. -Patanjali
3-3-2011
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| Petoskey from Zoll St. Park, Harbor Springs across frozen Little Traverse Bay Photo by MWild Hansen |
"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day."
~Vincent Van Gogh
~Vincent Van Gogh
2-26-2011
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| Lake Superior, Ontario Photo by M Wild Hansen |
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
---William Blake
2-3-11
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| Batchawana Bay, Ontario Photo by M Wild Hansen |
“It is not the mountain that we conquer, but ourselves.”
-Sir Edmund Hillary (1919-2008)
1-18-11
1-9-11
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Photo by M Wild Hansen Zion NP, Utah -Jim and Brian |
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. - Jean de La Fontaine
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