A nomad I will remain for life;

In love with distant and unchartered places. 

Isabelle Eberhardt 

Life is like a landscape,

You live in the midst of it but can

describe it only from the vantage

point of distance. 

Charles Lindbergh

Wilderness is not a luxury,

But a necessity of the human spirit. 

Edward Abbey

There are moments when all anxiety

and stated toil are becalmed in the

infinite leisure and repose of nature. 

Henry David Thoreau

I lingered ... 

Under that benign sky,

Watched the moths fluttering

Among the heath and harebells,

I listened to the soft wind breathing

through the grass, and wondered

how any one could ever imagine

unquiet slumbers for the sleepers 

in that quiet earth. 

Emily Brontë | Wuthering Heights

You never tire of the moor,

You cannot think the wonderful 

secrets which it contains,

It is so vast, and so barren,

And so mysterious.

Arthur Conan Doyle

A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories. 

Andy Goldsworthy

The path to inspiration starts 

upon the trails we've known, 

Each stumbling block is not a rock,

but just a stepping stone. 

Charles Ghigna

Pathways winding, ancient, worn,

Fading through the mist in the roaring wind,

Beautiful, bracing, solid, strong, 

A place to be, a place to belong.

Sue Cartwright 

Along the tramlines to the quarry,

Spoils tipped and tumbled into the valley,

A path winds down below the tor,

Birds chirping loudly to protect their young.

The view stretches a distance across the moors,

With its valleys and hedgerows and walls and tors,

The sun casts a glow on the trees and the land,

And the heart sings a song to be out in the wild.

Sue Cartwright

Heart shaped perfection growing so low,

Bilberry flower with a translucent glow,

Soon to be berries in the autumn sun,

Sumptuous for jams, jellies, syrups and rum. 

Sue Cartwright

We have forgotten what rocks and plants still know,

We have forgotten how to be,

To be still, to be ourselves, 

To be where life is here and now. 

Eckhart Tolle