Passion For Life
An organization of inclusivity
outdoor appreciation mentors
Passion for life mentors
a common sense solution to the Indoors Epidemic,
the Social Connectivity Epidemic,
the Screen Time Epidemic
What we are doing is more than decreasing screen time; it is more than introducing kids to outdoor passions; it is more than getting kids hooked on the outdoors. We’re not just battling the screens epidemic, the indoors epidemic; we’re not just fighting all the bad stuff that comes with it - increased rates of childhood obesity, anxiety, depression, suicide. We are fostering and cultivating outdoor mentorship, empowering people to make a difference. And we're doing this at a point in history where bringing people together, embracing our differences, celebrating life - celebrating our differences - couldn't be more needed. If there was ever a way to better the world in so many regards, this is it. - A.G.
Our Passionate Team
bringing people together from all walks of life who want to make a difference
George Gooley
Allagash
Executive Director
It is not length of life, but depth of life. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Russ Palmer
Outdoorsman
Board Member
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life. And see if I could not learn what it had to teach. And not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. - Henry David Thoreau
Gina Montefeltri
Outdoorswoman
Board Member
To walk in nature is to witness a thousand miracles. - Mary Davis
Julie Wright
Jules
Outdoorswoman
Board Member
Now I see the secret of making the best person, it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. - Walt Whitman
Ryan Goldberg
Outdoorsman
Ambassador
Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better. - Albert Einstein
Cornelius Hudak
Outdoorsman
Board Member
The mountains are calling, and I must go. - John Muir
Dr. Lori Towle
Nature-based Learning Expert
We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them, or to build with them. - William Arthur Ward
Not all who wander are lost. - JRRT
Pete Pappas
Outdoorsman
Senior Ambassador
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. - HDT
John Bilodeau
Outdoorsman
Ambassador
Carve your name not in stone, but in the hearts of men. - Wayne Dyer
Dr. Pete Beaubeouf
Outdoorsman
Ambassador
Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated. - Confucius
Bruce Gooley
Outdoorsman
Ambassador
The purpose of our lives is to be happy. - Daili Lama
Jason Collins
Fisheries Biologist
Ambassador
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it. - HF
In Memory of All the People Who Spent Time with Us When We Were Just Kids
Gramp
Howard Gooley
Mom
Dianne Gooley
Andy Hess
"Hess Mania"
