{"author":"Daniel J. Rice","author_id":"Daniel+J.+Rice","total_quotes":29,"quotes":[{"text":"There are places which exist in this world beyond the reach of imagination.","author":"Daniel J. Rice","tags":["beauty","environment","exist","imagination","landscape","marvel","nature","places","wilderness","world"],"id":23396,"author_id":"Daniel+J.+Rice"},{"text":"...Returning to nature has been a dream present in the minds of every generation since mankind first left nature.","author":"Daniel J. Rice","tags":["generation","home","life","mankind","mind","nature","reality","sanctuary","wilderness"],"id":35614,"author_id":"Daniel+J.+Rice"},{"text":"The trees show definitions of themselves subtly like the face of a man.","author":"Daniel J. Rice","tags":["faces","forest","knowledge","man","mankind","quote","thoreau","trees","wisdom","woods"],"id":54743,"author_id":"Daniel+J.+Rice"},{"text":"I watched the surrounding landscape with great curiosity, and I wanted to discover the words that could describe all its unspoiled beauty.","author":"Daniel J. Rice","tags":["art","beauty","curiosity","landscape","nature","pristine","wilderness"],"id":78485,"author_id":"Daniel+J.+Rice"},{"text":"If you are lucky you will have the opportunity in your life to be owned by a good piece of land.","author":"Daniel J. Rice","tags":["awake-in-the-world","environment","land","landowner","luck","nature","opportunity","wildlife"],"id":116939,"author_id":"Daniel+J.+Rice"},{"text":"The mountains knew the definition of freedom. They provided a place where he could find his mind.","author":"Daniel J. Rice","tags":["freedom","mind","mountains","sanity","wilderness","wyoming"],"id":152035,"author_id":"Daniel+J.+Rice"},{"text":"Only lost photographs that were never taken know what my mind speaks of when we are alone together.","author":"Daniel J. Rice","tags":["alone","crazy","hesse","lost","mountains","sanity","solitude","wilderness"],"id":155323,"author_id":"Daniel+J.+Rice"},{"text":"Sometimes I feel like I’m losing my mind,” she said with a hintof sadness.“You lost your mind a long time ago,” he said seriously. She looked at him with indignation. “That’s a compliment for anyone who knows the freedom and clarity of losing their mind,” he reaffirmed her.","author":"Daniel J. Rice","tags":["books","clarity","companionship","conscience","dreams","freedom","human-condition","indignation","losing-your-mind","love","mind","sanity","wilderness"],"id":164479,"author_id":"Daniel+J.+Rice"},{"text":"I walked slowly to enjoy this freedom, and when I came out of the mountains, I saw the sky over the prairie, and I thought that if heaven was real, I hoped it was a place I never had to go, for this earth was greater than any paradise.","author":"Daniel J. Rice","tags":["camping","heaven","hiking","mountains","nature","paradise","wilderness","writing"],"id":182537,"author_id":"Daniel+J.+Rice"},{"text":"We smoked fat cigars by the campfire and they tasted like wood and ash. The inhale and exhale was exciting. Blowing smoke rings in the calm forest air was followed by a deep swallow of cheap beer, and this too was exciting. There was no judgment in the wild, and so indulgences were plentiful. There were no regulators here and we were free to indulge in the deep intoxications that made our minds free.","author":"Daniel J. Rice","tags":["beer","cigars","drinking","forest","freedom","wilderness"],"id":188691,"author_id":"Daniel+J.+Rice"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":29,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}