Nature never overlooks a mistake,
or makes the smallest allowance
for ignorance. —Thomas H. Huxley,
1825-1895 A Liberal Education, 1868
Fear is the father of courage
and the mother of safety. —Henry H. Tweedy,
1868-1953,
Sermon
Nothing
is so much
to be feared as fear. —Henry
D. Thoreau, 1817-1862 Journal, 1851
My
life is like
a stroll upon the beach,
as near the ocean's edge
as I can go. —Henry
D. Thoreau, 1817-1862 My Life is like a . . . , 1849
To
drink in
the spirit of a place
you should be
not only alone
but not hurried. —George
Santayana, 1863-1952 The Letters of George Santayana
He
travels the fastest
who travels alone. —Rudyard
Kipling, 1865-1936 Soldiers Three: The Winners, 1888
The
man who goes alone
can start today,
but he who travels with
another must wait
till that other is ready. —Henry
D. Thoreau, 1817-1862 Walden: Economy, 1854
There
is no denying
that most of us,
when we arrive
at a place,
immediately begin
to think of other places
to which
we may go from it. —Robert
Lynd, The Blue Lion
Happiness
is not
a station you arrive at,
but a manner of traveling. —Margaret
L. Runbeck
O to be self-balanced
for contingencies,
to confront night, storms,
hunger, ridicule, accidents,
rebuffs, as the trees
and animals do. —Walt Whitman,
1819-1892 Leaves of Grass, 1855
A closed mouth
gathers no feet. —Anonymous
The laws of nature
are the same everywhere.
Whoever violates them
anywhere must always
pay the penalty. —Carl Schurz,
1829-1906
Nature is not governed
except by obeying her. —Francis Bacon,
1561-1626 De Augmentis Scientiarum
Nature's rules
have no exceptions. —Herbert Spencer,
1820-1903 Social Statistics, 1851
Nature pardons
no mistakes.
Her yea is yea,
and her nay, nay. —Ralph W. Emerson,
1803-1882 Nature, Addresses, &
Lectures: Discipline
For Nature is one
with rapine, a harm
no preacher can heal;
the mayfly is torn
by the swallow,
the sparrow spear'd
by the shrike,
and the whole
little wood where I sit
is a world of
plunder and prey. —Alfred Tennyson,
1809-1892 Maud, 1855
Sails ripp'd,
seams op'ning wide,
and compass lost —William Cowper,
1731-1800 On Rcpt of My Mother's Picture
Though
pleased to see
the dolphins play,
I mind my compass and my way. —Matthew
Green, 1696-1737 The Spleen
Skill'd
in the globe and sphere, he gravely stands
and,
with his compass,
measures seas and lands. —John
Dryden, 1631-1700 Sixth Satire of Juvenal
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Web site short URL: www.MibSAR.com I don't know what
your destiny will be,
but one thing I do know:
the only ones among you
who will be really happy
are those who have sought
and found how to serve. —Albert Schweitzer,
1875-1965
French theologian, medical missionary,
philosopher, musician,
and Nobel Peace Prize winner
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a special operations team of volunteer,
cold-case investigators organized as a Community Emergency Response
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Security (DHS).
Founded and run by Michael Neiger
of Marquette, Michigan, MibSAR's mission is to assist Upper Michigan
law enforcement agencies with criminal and non-criminal cold-case
investigations involving missing-persons in remote, wilderness areas
as well as unsolved felonies such as murder, assault, rape, kidnapping,
bombing, bank robbery, grand larceny, counterfeiting, smuggling,
etc.
MibSAR also investigates missing-person
cold cases in the remote, wilderness regions of the eastern Lake
Superior watershed of Ontario, Canada.
In addition to designing investigative
Web sites and wanted posters, MibSAR also does archaeological- and
historic-site mapping as well as artifact-scatter documentation.
As
part of its Extreme Maps
for Extreme Races community outreach program, MibSAR designs
1:24,000-scale racecourse cartography and elevation profiles for
long-distance, muscle-powered, endurance events in the Midwest.
MibSAR is a member in good standing
of the National Association for Search and Rescue (NASAR); the International
Society of Professional Trackers (ISPT); the International Association
of Cold Case Investigators (IACCI); the International Crime Scene
Investigation Association (ICSIA); and the International Homicide
Investigators Association (IHIA).
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ofexcellence in search
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technical land navigation, and long-range, wilderness expeditioning.
Great minds discuss
ideas.
Average minds discuss events.
Small minds discuss people. —Anna Eleanor
Roosevelt,
1884-1962,
Author, diplomat, & humanitarian
MibSAR would like
to thank it's generous partners, supporters, & sponsors for
supporting its efforts at reuniting the missing with their loved
ones. Thank You!
People who say it cannot
be done,
...should not interrupt those who are doing it. —Anonymous
U.S. Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (ATF)
Alger County Sheriff's Department
Munising, Michigan
In God's
wilderness
lies the hope of the world,
the great, fresh, unblighted,
unredeemed wilderness. —
John Muir, 1838-1914 Alaska Wilderness,
1890
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you've been able to read this Web page...
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thank a Veteran. —Author
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Some people
dream of worthy accomplishments,
others
stay awake and do them. —Anonymous
Bear-den recon 101
by Team MibSAR...
Click
here or on image to
view a video of MibSAR's Chris Ozminski reconing a bear
den on a 5-day, Sept 24-28, 2008 SAR
Operation in support of the Joe
Clewley Investigation. (Video by Chris Ozminski)
We take
risks
not to escape Life,
...but to prevent
Life from escaping us. —Anonymous
The 1944 wreckage of a
U.S. Army B-17 Flying Fortress found on a July 2008 SAR
training operation in the Porcupine Mountains by Dennis
Waite
and Michael Neiger.
Nature's
laws affirm
instead of prohibiting.
If you violate her laws
you are your own
prosecuting attorney,
judge, jury, and hangman. —Luther
Burbank, 1849-1926
I
follow nature
as the surest guide,
and resign myself,
with implicit obedience,
to her sacred ordinances. —Marcus
T. Cicero, 106-43 B.C.
All
paths lead nowhere,
so it is important
to choose a path
that has heart. —Carlos
Castaneda
Improvements
make
straight roads;
but the crooked roads
without improvement
are the roads of genius. —William
Blake
We
shall not
cease from exploration
And the end
of all our exploring
Will be to arrive
where we started
And know the place
for the first time. —Thomas.
S. Elliot, 1888-1965 Four Quartets: Little Gidding, 1942
The
clearest way
into the Universe is
through a forest wilderness. —John
Muir, 1838-1914 John of the Mountains, 1938
There
is a great deal of
unmapped country within us. —George
Eliot, 1819-1880 Daniel Deronda
Look
at this vigorous plant
that lifts its head from
the meadow, see how its leaves
are turned to the north,
as true as the magnet;
this is the compass-flower,
that the finger of god
has planted here
in the houseless wild,
to direct the traveler's journey. —Henry
W. Longfellow, 1807-1882 Evangeline, 1847
I
shall be telling this with a sigh—
somewhere ages and ages
hence; two roads diverged
in a wood, and I—I took
the one less traveled by, and
that has made all the difference. —Robert
Frost, 1874-1963 The Road Not Taken, 1916, stanza
4
I
think there is a fatality in it—
I seldom go to the place
I set out for. —Laurence
Sterne, 1713-1768
As
light and the day
are free to all men,
so nature has left all lands
open to brave men. —Caius
Tacitus, Circa AD 55-117 History
Books
are the compasses
and telescopes and sextants
and charts which other men
have prepared to help us
navigate the dangerous
seas of human life. —Jesse
Lee Bennett, 1885-1931 Books as Guides
