Thursday, July 31, 2008

P.L. Travers Quotation


Be still long enough, I thought,
and the trees would take no notice of me
and continue whatever it was
they were doing or saying
before I happened upon them.

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Homer Quotation


For afterwards a man finds pleasure in his pains,
when he has suffered long and wandered hard.

Sunday, July 27, 2008

Walter Whitman Quotation


Let your soul stand cool and composed
before a million universes.

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Henry Beston Quotation


When the Pleiades and the wind in the grass are no longer a part of the human spirit, a part of very flesh and bone, man becomes as it were, a kind of cosmic outlaw, having neither the completeness and integrity of the animal nor the birthright of true humanity.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Joseph Conrad Quotation



Some of us, regarding the ocean with understanding and affection, have seen it looking old, as if the immemorial ages had been stirred up from the undisturbed bottom of ooze. For it is a gale of wind that makes the sea look old.

Sunday, July 20, 2008

Glenn Clark Quotation



If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light.
Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Millard Quotation


The universe is simple; it's the explanation that's complex.