Northern Michigan Experience

“I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.” -Rosalia de Castro

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Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. ~Stanley Horowitz

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I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me. -Dinah Shore

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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb

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“As long as one keeps searching, the answers come” - Joan Baez quotes (American Singer and Song Writer, b.1941)

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"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower." ~Hans Christian Anderson

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The windows of my soul I throw Wide open to the sun. ~John Greenleaf Whittier, My Psalm

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Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn. ~Robert Brault

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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. ~Hal Borland

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Breath is Spirit. The act of breathing is Living. ~Author Unknown

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I'll tell you how the sun rose a ribbon at a time. ~Emily Dickinson

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Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present. ~Babatunde Olatunji Traverse City 2008

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You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it. -Paulo Coelho

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“The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection” -Thomas Paine

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“Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.” -Jewel

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falling leaves hide the path so quietly ~John Bailey, "Autumn," a haiku year, 2001

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In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. - John Muir

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Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn. ~Elizabeth Lawrence

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There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. ~Willa Cather Here is my Loon chick - all grown up and getting ready to migrate. The night he was born, there was a huge stor...

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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. ~George Eliot I couldn't resist posting one of my Autumn photo...

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For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. ~Martin Luther

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Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all. - Emily Dickenson

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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do. ~Michel de Montaigne

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Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

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