Ocupation: Botanist
Life: June 25, 1799 - July 12, 1834
Birthday: June 25
Death: July 12
Wilderness has been characterized as barren and unproductive; little can be grown in its sand and rock. But the crops of wilderness have always been its spiritual values - silence and solitude, a sense of awe and gratitude - able to be harvested by any traveler who visits.
source: David Douglas (1989). “Wilderness Sojourn: Notes in the Desert Silence”, HarperCollins
topic: Spiritual, Gratitude, Rocks, Spiritual Values, Unproductive, Sauntering