After finishing out My First Summer in the Sierra I figured I might as well read Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire. This quote is from “Cowboys and Indians Part II” and is something I need to remember when I’m out hiking and enjoying nature. Need to slow down and enjoy myself.…
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A few more quotes from John Muir’s My First Summer in the Sierra. I finally finished it a few weeks ago and had these quotes saved and finally made some time to get them posted here. The first is from Chapter 4, “To the High Mountains” It seems extravagant to…
I decided to take a brief, at least one book, break from reading science fiction. I’ve been on a bit of a science fiction binge lately when it comes to my reading choices and wanted to give that part of my brain a rest. With that in mind, I decided…
From Chapter 7, The Glacier Meadows: This is a glacier meadow. It is about a mile and a half long by a quarter of a mile wide. The trees come pressing forward all around in close serried ranks, planting their feet exactly on its margin, and holding themselves erect, strict…
From Chapter 7, The Glacier Meadows: The influences of pure nature seem to be so little known as yet, that it is generally supposed that complete pleasure of this kind, permeating one’s very flesh and bones, unfits the student for scientific pursuits in which cool judgement and observation are required.…
This rather long passage came from Chapter Five, The Passes: To the timid traveler, fresh from the sedimentary levels of the lowlands, these highways, however picturesque and grand, seem terribly forbidding-cold, dead, gloomy gashes in the bones of the mountains, and all of Nature’s ways the ones to be most…
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline My rating: 5 of 5 stars Ready Player One has been on my To Read list for quite a while. I’ve seen it mentioned on a variety of web-sites. Having heard that it was being adapted to film I decided it was time to…
The Cyclops Initiative by David Wellington My rating: 4 of 5 stars I just finished up David Wellington’s latest chapter in the Jim Chapel series and I must say I liked it. Once again I must reiterate that I’m a big David Wellington fan so I was very excited to…
Positive by David Wellington My rating: 4 of 5 stars Once again David Wellington takes the post-apocalyptic zombie genre and once again puts his own spin on it. Wellington did something similar with this Monster series by giving us a zombie that could think and talk. Giving the reader a…
The Martian by Andy Weir My rating: 5 of 5 stars Holy cow I can’t believe I finished Andy Weir’s The Martian in two days! It was that easy of a read. There are parts that get very technical and scientific and for those who don’t enjoy technical and scientific…