Nature More

I don't know why I haven't posted this yet, but over the past couple months I have been on some amazing trips to the Mountains. I don't know why but I love it there. I've skinny dipped in a lake that forms directly from snow melt, had several moose stare me in the eyes after rubbing off their velvet, watched elk do things I didn't even know existed all in the name of impressing a mate, been blinded by golden aspens, summited rocky peaks just to get a better vantage point to un-lost myself, had 3 inches of snow last weekend, to hike in shorts and sandals this. It makes me think of a poem:

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods
There is a rapture on the lonely shore
There is society, where none intrudes
By the deep sea, and music in its roar
I love not man the less, but Nature more…
- Lord Byron

But more importantly I've had good friends (and made new ones) to share these experences with, which brings up another quote:

Happiness Only Real When Shared
- Chris McCandless