Wayfinding is an activity that confronts us with the marvelous fact of being in the world. requiring us to look up and take ntoice, ot congnitively and emotionally interact with our surroundings whether we are in the wilderness or a city, even calling us to renew our species' love affair with freedom, exploration, and place. - M.R. O' Connor

Our origins are of the earth. And so there is in us a deeply seated response to the natural universe, which is part of our humanity. - Rachel Carson

The season has always drawn a sort of restlessness from me. The Germans have a fine word for it: zugunruhe. A compound derived from the roots zug (migration) and unruhe (anxiety), it describes the seasonal migration of birds and other animals. In this wanderlust I want to go somehwere far away... I, too, am so soaked in wanting and wood's lust that I might as well wander like a warbler in the joyyous urgency of it all. - J. Drew Lanham