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Joys come from simple and natural things; mist over meadows, sunlight on leaves, the path of the moon over water. Even rain and wind and stormy clouds bring joy.
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Sigurd F. Olson
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...only when one comes to listen, only when one is aware and still, can things be seen and heard.
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Sigurd F. Olson (Listening Point (Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage))
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Spring, in addition to many other things, is a time for renewal of memories that may have grown dim during the winter,
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Sigurd F. Olson (Wilderness Days (A Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book))
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It was good to lie there in our bags watching the glow of our dying fire and the deeper glow of sunset beyond; but most of all it was good to feel the ground again and to know we were back in a country we loved.
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Sigurd F. Olson (Wilderness Days (A Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book))
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Ours was a sense of golden leisure that comes only in the spring, after months of grayness and cold.
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Sigurd F. Olson (Wilderness Days (A Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book))
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It was the contrast that fascinated Mac as much as anything else. Knowing that both the wilderness and civilization were available to the nth degree, he was completely happy. I have found it is the same with many men; being able to live in the present and also in the past gives them a sense of completeness that they can get in no other way.
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Sigurd F. Olson (The Meaning of Wilderness (A Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book))