Know your own happiness.

~ Jane Austen

Rivoli’s Hummingbird (formerly Magnificent), Hummingbird Banding,

Madera Canyon, Arizona 2009

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Squirrel, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado 2010

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
~ E. B. White

Western Screech Owl, Tucson, Arizona 2009

Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one’s courage.

~ Anais Nin

Hot Air Balloon, Tucson, Arizona 2010

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

~ Mark Twain

Sailboat, San Diego, California 2012

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

~ William Shakespeare

Coyote Pup, Tucson, Arizona 2011

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable; and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly…to listen to stars and buds, to babes and sages, with open heart; await occasions, hurry never…this is my symphony.

~ William Henry Channing

Monarch Butterfly, Davenport, Iowa 2009

For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night,

For health and food, For love and friends.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Scorpionweed with Bee, Tucson, Arizona 2012

If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best teach it to dance.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Laughing Squirrel, Portland, Oregon