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[at-l] A hiker's prayer...



Amen to that,  brothers and sisters.

On Mon, 21 May 2001, Paul Magnanti wrote:

> This was posted on PCT-L...and it was too good not to
> pass on.. Enjoy
>
> May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome,
> dangerous, leading to the most awesome view.
> May your rivers flow without end, meandering through
> pastoral valleys tinkling with bells, past temples and
> castles and poets’ towers into a dark primeval forest
> where tigers belch and monkeys howl, through miasmal
> and mysterious swamps and down into a desert of red
> rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of
> endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient
> unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled
> cliffs, where deer walk across the white sand beaches,
> where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the
> high crags, where something strange and more beautiful
> and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams wait
> for you – beyond the next turning of the canyon walls.
>
> -Edward Abbey
>
>
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> The true harvest of my life is intangible.... a little stardust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched
> --Thoreau
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