"Your work needs to be independent of others' work.
You must not compare yourself to others.
No one can help you. You have to help yourself.
Criticism leads to misunderstandings and defeatism.
Work from necessity and your compulsion to do it.
Work on what you know and what you are sure you love.
Don't observe yourself too closely, just let it happen.
Don't let yourself be controlled by too much irony.
Live in and love the activity of your work.
Be free of thoughts of sin, guilt and misgiving.
Be touched by the beautiful anxiety of life.
Be patient with the unresolved in your heart.
Try to be in love with the questions themselves.
Love your solitude and try to sing with its pain.
Be gentle to all of those who stay behind.
Your inner self is worth your entire concentration.
Allow your art to make extraordinary demands on you.
Bear your sadness with greater trust than your joy.
Do not persecute yourself with how things are going.
It's good to be solitary, because solitude is difficult.
It's good to love, because love is difficult.
You are not a prisoner of anything or anyone."
"Letters to a Young Poet", Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)
A little bit about Idaho...
Motto: Esto perpetua (It is forever)
State symbols:
Flower~ syringa (1931)
Tree~ white pine (1935)
Bird~ mountain bluebird (1931)
Horse~ Appaloosa (1975)
Gem~ star garnet (1967)
Song~ "Here We Have Idaho"
Folk Dance~ square dance
Fish~ cutthroat trout (1990)
Fossil~ Hagerman horse fossil (1988)
Nickname: Gem State
Origin of name: An invented name whose meaning is unknown.
The region was explored by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in 1805-1806. It was then a part of the Oregon country, held jointly by the United States and Great Britain. Boundary disputes with Great Britain were settled by the Oregon Treaty in 1846, and the first permanent U.S. settlement in Idaho was established by the Mormons at Franklin in 1860.
After gold was discovered at Orofino Creek in 1860, prospectors swarmed into the territory, but they left little more than a number of ghost towns.
In the 1870s, growing white occupation of Indian lands led to a series of battles between U.S. forces and the Nez Percé, Bannock, and Sheepeater tribes.
Mining and lumbering have been important for years. Idaho ranks high among the states in silver, antimony, lead, cobalt, garnet, phosphate rock, vanadium, zinc, and mercury.
Agriculture is a major industry: The state produces about one fourth of the nation's potato crop, as well as wheat, apples, corn, barley, sugar beets, and hops.
The 1990s saw a remarkable growth in the high technology industries, concentrated in the metropolitan Boise area.
With the growth of winter sports, tourism now outranks other industries in revenue. Idaho's many streams and lakes provide fishing, camping, and boating sites. The nation's largest elk herds draw hunters from all over the world, and the famed Sun Valley resort attracts thousands of visitors to its swimming, golfing, and skiing facilities.
Points of interest are the Craters of the Moon National Monument; Nez Percé National Historic Park, which includes many sites visited by Lewis and Clark; and the State Historical Museum in Boise. Other attractions are the Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area south of Boise, Hells Canyon on the Idaho-Oregon border, and the Sawtooth National Recreation Area in south-central Idaho.
10 largest cities (2005 est.):
Boise, 193,161;
Nampa, 71,713;
Pocatello, 53,372;
Idaho Falls, 52,338;
Meridian, 52,240;
Coeur d'Alene, 40,059;
Twin Falls, 38,630;
Caldwell, 34,433;
Lewiston, 31,081;
Rexburg, 26,265
Land area: 82,747 sq mi. (214,315 sq km)
Geographic center: In Custer Co., at Custer, SW of Challis
Number of counties: 44, plus small part of Yellowstone National Park
Largest county by population and area: Ada, 344,727 (2005); Idaho, 8,485 sq mi.
State forests: 881,000 ac.
State parks: 30 (43,000+ ac.)
Residents: Idahoan
2005 resident population est.: 1,429,096
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