When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

Ropes Course, Tucson, Arizona 2010

Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Full Moon, Tucson, Arizona 06-2013

One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.

~ Goethe

Central Park, New York, New York 2012

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Male Mallard, Sweetwater Wetlands, Tucson, Arizona 2008

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

~ Emily Dickinson

Mellow Sunset, Pacific City, Oregon 2018

The will to do, the soul to dare.

~ Sir Walter Scott

Velella Velella, Neskowin, Oregon 2018

Life can only take place in the present moment.

~ Buddha

Pacific Tree Frog (Pseudacris regilla), Pacific City, Oregon 2018

I am here to live out loud.

~ Emile Zola

American Robin fledgling, Bismarck, North Dakota 2010

Don’t push the river, it flows by itself.

~ Chinese proverb

River, Yellowstone National Park, 2008