“I’ll hike into the middle of the woods somewhere and start a quaint but fruitful business in animal photography, developing the photos myself in a haphazard dark room shack… ha, just kidding.”

“Only in the early mornings, before we start to stir, do I get to experience these special moments.”

“…it was time to buckle down and push through. I had to change the way I was approaching it mentally.”

“This is probably the closest thing to exploring an alien world that I’ve ever experienced.”

“I drink so much water and yet I am parched in the soul.”

“Have you ever noticed the flagging tape while hiking out in the woods?”

“[W]hile some of my summer has been spent living the high life on the lake, the reality is that much more of it has been somewhat less glamorous.”

“Fish encounters are what people usually want to talk about when they find out I’ve been diving in Squam, but I’d be lying if I ever said it wasn’t the plants that enchanted me most.”

“[T]he first time my parents brought me to the ocean as an infant, they were worried I wouldn’t like it, and instead I promptly plopped myself down in the surf and just kept smiling.”