EXCELLENCE -Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, CO

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." ~ Aristotle

Great Horned Owl (Mother) ~ Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge Commerce City, CO

"Believe one who knows: you will find something greater in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters." ~ Saint Bernard de Clairvaux

Indian Roller ~ Bandhavgarh National Park, India

"I pray to the birds. I pray to the birds because I believe they will carry the messages of my heart upward. I pray to them because I believe in their existence, the way their songs begin and end each day-the invocations and benedictions of Earth. I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen." ~ Terry Tempest Williams

Soaring High....Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, CO

"The wings of hope carry us, soaring high above the driving winds of life." ~Anna Jacob

Northern Harrier

"Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it." ~ Sai Baba

Great Horned Owl - Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, CO

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky is by no means a waste of time." ~ J. Lubbuc

Golden Eagle

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” ~ John Quincy Adams Majesty Strength Courage Wisdom Power Freedom

Swainson's Hawk - Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, CO

“The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time. They are kneeling with hands clasped that we might act with restraint, that we might leave room for the life that is destined to come. To protect what is wild is to protect what is gentle. Perhaps the wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silent space that says we live only by grace. Wilderness lives by this same grace. Wild mercy is in our hands.”  ~Terry Tempest Williams

Burrowing Owl

"When you have a space in your heart that is unfilled close your eyes tightly and remember how once your heart soared..now fly”  ― Bluenscottish

Bald Eagle in flight-Rocky Mountain Arsenal Wildlife Refuge, Commerce City, CO

"Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.” ~Pablo Picasso

Golden Eagle

"In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love." ~ Eckhart Tolle

Food fight between Ferruginous Hawks and Bald Eagle

“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

Ferruginous Hawk

"A great silent space holds all of nature in its embrace. It also holds you." ~ Eckhart Tolle

Bald Eagle Ice Fishing

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish." ~ John Quincy Adams

Burrowing Owl

“Great leaders never look down upon those who look up to them.” ~ Gift Gugu Mona

Golden Eagle

“Soar your wings high in the heavenly sky.” ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Blue Grosbeak

“I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen.” ~ Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

Meadowlark

“The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also." ~ Harriet Ann Jacobs

White-faced Ibis

“Humanity must become aware that if we take away the beautiful beings of nature, we will take the beauty out of the very things that make the world and our lives beautiful. Without these things, our soul and life on this earth will become incomplete.” ~Paul Oxton

Bald Eagle Ice Fishing

"Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasure to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence." ~ Alfred Billings Street

White Pelican

"Oh soul, you worry too much. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Why do you worry?" ~ Rumi

Bald Eagle in flight-Rocky Mountain Arsenal Wildlife Refuge, Commerce City, CO

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, confidence, love and loyalty. ~ Zig Ziglar

Cooper’s Hawk (Accipiter cooperi) ~ Colorado

The poetry of the earth is never dead. ~ John Keats

Soaring High Over Colorado Sky- Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, CO

A broken song beneath the now, the echo of a soaring joy, a shape in the mist, a touch in the rain, in the wilderness you come again... you tell us what we used to know... you speak for all the free wild things whose ways were ours when the wind had wings." ~ Bev Doolittle

Red-tailed Hawk - Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, CO

"A broken song beneath the now, the echo of a soaring joy, a shape in the mist, a touch in the rain, in the wilderness you come again…you tell us what we used to know…you speak for all the free wild things whose ways were ours when the wind had a wings." ~ Bev Doolittle

Bald Eagles, Rocky Mountain Arsenal Wildlife Refuge, CO

"Let my dreams be bigger than my fears, and my actions louder than my words." ~ Chi-Miigwech

Hooded Merganser, Prospect Park, CO

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Bald Eagle - Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, CO

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson