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SOUTHERN UTAH VARIATIONS =In the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument
Spend some time; these are the places where you will find yourself.
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THE END OF WINTER'S HIBERNATION
“Haven't you ever thought of living
unconsciously like bears, sniffing the earth,
close to pears and the mossy dark,
far from human voices?" - Nâzım Hikmet Ran
bear black wildlife spring wilderness green grass dandelion walking evergreen spruce
FEELING EACH OTHER OUT - Wild horses about to battle
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. - Sun Tzu
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"Puff-Ball": Pied-billed Grebe
“In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.”
― Robert Lynd
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TUNDRA SWANS - WASATCH MOUNTAIN BACKGROUND
“If you can add a great beauty to something which is already beautiful, then you must be very beautiful like a white swan adding beauty to a misty lake!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan
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Across Millions of Years - South-eastern Utah
Quality of life is not only about what you find in the shops; it's about what you find in the landscapes.
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Snow Geese - Bosque del Apache, New Mexico
A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial. - Thomas Fuller
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Outbound
Those who awaken never rest in one place. Like swans, they rise and leave the lake. On the air they rise and fly an invisible course. Their food is knowledge. They live on emptiness. - Gautama Buddha quote
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CHOCOLATE MARSHMALLOW - Southern Utah
When I was a kid, I used to think, 'Man, if I could ever afford all the ice cream I want to eat, that's as rich as I ever want to be.' - Jimmy Dean
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Aww Shucks
“Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. ” ― W.C. Fields
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Bedded Down for the Night
“I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.” ― Ellen DeGeneres
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Leaving My Post
“…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” - Mark Nepo
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Floating
“Birds were created to record everything. They were not designed just to be beautiful jewels in the sky, but to serve as the eyes of heaven.”
― Suzy Kassem
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A Kid at Play
When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone.
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GOSSIP - wild horses
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. - Will Rogers
horse horses manes together friends whispering wild frizzy
In the Cattails Red-winged Blackbird
“The freedom of birds is an insult to me.” ― Cormac McCarthy
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A Fox should not serve on the jury at a goose's trial
Trump is unloved in his own house. A figure of ridicule, a theatrical creation, he is almost sympathetic. He was told by the greedy and the outright stupid that he would make a swell president. The Liar's Paradox has spun out of control, with liars lying to a liar who believed the lie. What would that be called? Fox News, I think. - Richard Cohen
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Moonset ride at 11a.m. - Antelope Island - Great Salt Lake - black & white with red filter
Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone. - Paul Tillich
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Marsh Song
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. - Maya Angelou
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Mates for Life
You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life. - Greta Garbo
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Siblings - young coyotes outside their den
Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air. - Jack Benny
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Preening - American White Pelicans - Bear River Bird Refuge
The more we can get together and talk about various perspectives, feelings, beliefs, the better. - William P. Leahy
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Late Afternoon Hunter - Short-eared Owl
Predators... they are the best coal miners' canaries. When they're gone, you've got a sick ecosystem. - Henry Paulson
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MAKIN' A FUSS AND KICKIN' UP THE DUST - Wild stallions
I'm convinced that probably everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. - Yolanda Hadid
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Early Spring - Northern Utah farmland
Although this quote is well founded... it's a sad state of affairs in our country: "A 'farm' today means 100,000 chickens in a space the size of a Motel 6 shower stall." - P. J. O'Rourke
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“When a pine needle falls in the forest, the eagle sees it; the deer hears it, and the bear smells it.” – First Nations saying
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The Eyes Have It
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. - Aesop
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“If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.” ― Maggie Stiefvater, "The Raven Boys"
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“We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations.” ― David Brower
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Rounding up his mares. - Wild horses in the west desert of Utah
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Waiting for the oarsman
“Water creates so much beauty, life and mystery.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Meaningful Life - Fennel's Journal - No. 1
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If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back. - Ellen Swallow Richards
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TWO TERNS MAKE FOUR - Forster's Terns
“Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him?” ― Bill Watterson
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THE DESERT HORSE
“I don't like people," said Velvet. "... I only like horses.”
― Enid Bagnold, National Velvet
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A FIRST VENTURE - Coyote pups beginning to find their way
“Maturity is when your world opens up and you realize that you are not the center of it.” ― M.J. Croan
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WILD PAIR
A horse loves freedom, and the weariest old work horse will roll on the ground or break into a lumbering gallop when he is turned loose into the open. ~Gerald Raferty
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EARLY MORNING STRETCH - Barn Swallow in the cattails
How do you know so much about swallows? King Arthur: Well, you have to know these things when you're a king. - From Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” ― Albert Camus
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CUTTING CORNERS - Barrel racing at the rodeo
If you climb in the saddle be ready for the ride.
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“Every lake belongs to the quietness desired by the swans.” ― Munia Khan
Trumpeter Swan below the Teton mountains, outside Jackson, Wyoming
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AUTUMN PASTURE
I wanted to be a cattle rancher when I was young, because it was what I knew and I loved it. - Sandra Day O'Connor
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LOOKING ACROSS SKULL VALLEY - Utah's west-desert area
I have this personal affinity for the desert. I am fascinated by it. I love it.
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FEMALE PRONGHORN ANTELOPE - below the Cedar Mountain Range in Utah's west desert
To me, fast food is when a cheetah eats an antelope. - George Carlin
(The pronghorn antelope can only be outrun by a cheetah)
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"No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses." - Herman Melville
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BIG COTTONWOOD CREEK - WASATCH MOUNTAINS - UTAH
Be yourself; stay out of the mainstream.
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SHALLOW FOCUS - Red-winged Blackbird
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. - Salvador Dali
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FOLLOW THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD - High Uinta Mountains - Utah
“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.” ― Gautama Buddha, Sayings Of Buddha
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The Wild Bunch - Miles from nowhere in Utah
The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. ~Yiddish Proverb
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