For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bison Rut, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota 2010

The meaning is not derived from the answers to these questions. The meaning is derived from asking them.

~ Chris Larson

Brooklyn Bridge, New York, New York 2012

Gather out of Star-dust, Earth-dust, Cloud-dust, Storm-dust, And splinters of hail, One handful of dream-dust, Not for sale.

~ Langston Hughes

Duckweed, Sweetwater Wetlands, Tucson, Arizona 2012

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

~ Thomas Jefferson

Revolutionary War Re-enactor, Breed’s Hill, Bunker Hill Monument, Boston National Historical Park, Boston, Massachusetts 2007

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Lichen on Branch, Madera Canyon, Arizona 2010

A life is not important except in the impact it has on the lives of others.

~ Jackie Robinson

Mule Deer Nursing, Tucson Mountains, Tucson, Arizona 2009

One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

~ André Gide

Kauai, Hawaii 2014

Ignorance is not saying, I don’t know. Ignorance is saying, I don’t want to know.

~ Anon.

Copulating Banana Slugs, Portland, Oregon 2013

Be humble, for you are made of earth. Be noble, for you are made of stars.

~ Anon.

Full Moon, Tucson, Arizona 2013