For the Love of Dirt: Hawks

Monday, October 27, 2025

"Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky..." -Ursula K. Le Guin

"The mountains are calling, and I must go..." - John Muir

"A pine needle fell in the forest.The hawk saw it. The deer heard it. The white bear smelled it..." -Edith Pattou

"Climb the mountain, so you can see the world, not so the world can see you..." -David McCullough, Jr.

"The wild hawk to the wind-swept sky...." -Rudyard Kipling

"Prayer clears the mist and brings back peace to the Soul..."

-Rumi

"Like a hawk, let your vision be sharp, your focus unwavering, and your determination unyielding..." -Unknown

"No wolf falters before the bite, so strike No hawk wavers before the dive just strike..." -Shannon Hale

"I see you watching me like a hawk..."-Willie Dixon

"...his old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front..."

-J.R. R. Tolkien

"I have need of the sky, I have business with the grass, I will up and get me away where the hawk is wheeling lone and high..."

-Richard Hoovey

"So long as the mist envelops you, be still. Be still till the sunlight pours through and dispels the mists..."-Chief White Eagle

"Dost thou love hawking? Thou hast hawks will soar above the morning lark..."

-Shakespeare

"Faith moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before..." -F. Nietzsche

"The mountain remains unmoved as its seeming defeat by the mist..." -R. Tagore

"As I stood and watched the mists slowly rising this morning, I wondered what view was more beautiful than this..." - H. Borland

"The silence holds with its gloved hand the wild hawk of the mind..." -R.S. Thomas

Photographs 2025

Sharp-Skinned Hawks ( I think), and Mt. Washington range, Vancouver Island, B.C.

For the Love of Dirt