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| Going to the mountains is going home. -- John Muir Walk quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountains. Camp out among the grasses of the glacial meadows. Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their freshness into you and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. -- John Muir |
| Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew. -- Saint Francis de Sales It is a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars. -- Garrison Keillor |
| Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility. -- Oprah Winfrey Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and gather the influences of each. -- Henry David Thoreau |
| The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener complained that the tree was slow-growing and wouldn't reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, "In that case, there's no time to lose, plant it this afternoon." -- John F. Kennedy How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are? -- Satchel Paige |
| I've learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange to say, I am ungrateful to these teachers. -- Kahlil Gibran We discover wisdom for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us. -- Marcel Proust |
| Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. -- Ralph W. Sockman |
| A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know. -- Diane Arbus No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer it has chosen. -- Minor White |
| May your walls know joy; may every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility. -- Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey Gratitude lives in hearts that take time to count up past mercies. -- Charles E. Jefferson |
| Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes. -- Marcel Proust |
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| I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. -- Walt Whitman Give me a spark of Nature's fire, that's all the learning I desire. -- Robert Burns |
| The palest ink is better than the best memory. -- Chinese Proverb The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. -- H. L. Mencken |
| In wildness is the preservation of the world. -- Henry David Thoreau Beware of any enterprise that requires new clothes. -- Henry David Thoreau |
| In the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air and we all cherish our children's futures. -- John F. Kennedy We never understand or appreciate anything until we look at it through yesterday's windows. -- Roberta Spurlock |
| The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate and dishonest--but the myth--persistent and persuasive. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. -- John F. Kennedy Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not. -- Oprah Winfrey |
| The photo below was taken on May 23, 2006, by an Expedition 13 crew member on the International Space Station. It records the eruption of Cleveland Volcano, Aleutian Islands, Alaska. Cleveland Volcano is one of the most active of the volcanoes in the region and its ash plumes have reached heights of 12 kilometers. |
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| Music: Twelfth of Never Friday's Journal The Past Whispers - Home Old New Orleans |
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