"Nature will not be admired by proxy...." - Quote by Winston Churchill

“I like things to happen, and if they don't happen I like to make them happen.”

“it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people.”

“The most important thing about education is appetite.”

“The chickadee and nuthatch are more inspiring society than statesmen and philosophers, and we shall return to these last as to more vulgar companions.”

“No matter how the sun shone, the sea held forth no more promises.”

“Mornings at Blackwater" For years, every morning, I drank from Blackwater Pond. It was flavored with oak leaves and also, no doubt, the feet of ducks. And always it assuaged me from the dry bowl of the very far past. What I want to say is that the past is the past, and the present is what your life is, and you are capable of choosing what that will be, darling citizen. So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world. And live your life.”

“You are the best thing that's ever been mine.”

“To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted.”

“Make the most of every sense; glory in all the facets of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you...”