To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction. ~E.F. Schumacher (Thanks, Arly!)
Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Poker is... a fascinating, wonderful, intricate adventure on the high seas of human nature. ~David A. Daniel
Eat little, sleep sound. ~Iranian Proverb
Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history. ~James Dickey
My favorite weather is bird-chirping weather. ~Terri Guillemets
I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything. ~John Steinbeck
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
When a child is born, so are grandmothers. ~Judith Levy
I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse. ~Mark Twain
Perishability in a photograph is important in a picture. If a photograph looks perishable we say, "Gee, I'm glad I have that moment." ~John Loengard, "Pictures Under Discussion"
I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. ~Agatha Christie
Sometimes the path you're on is not as important as the direction you're heading. ~Kevin Smith
One is not born a woman, one becomes one. ~Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1949
I'm not overweight, I'm undertall. ~Author Unknown
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. ~Wendell Berry, "The Peace of Wild Things"
I conceive that the land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are still unborn. ~Author Unknown
God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road. ~Isak Dinesen
Astrology is a fact, in most instances. But astrological aspects are but signs, symbols. No influence is of greater value or of greater help than the will of an individual.... Do not attempt to be guided by, but use the astrological influences as the m
eans to meet or to overcome the faults and failures, or to minimize the faults and to magnify the virtues in self. ~Edgar Cayce
When we're together or when we're apart, you're first in my thoughts and first in my heart. ~Author Unknown
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth. ~Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses
People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. ~Rogers Hornsby
Old age ain't no place for sissies. ~Bette Davis
