Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado 2010

Life is too important to take seriously.

~ Oscar Wilde

Steller’s Jay, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado 2010

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

~ e.e. cummings

Rocky Mountain Goat, Glacier National Park, Montana 2008

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

~ Aristotle

White Meadowfoam, Sebastopol, California 2008

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find within yourself all of the barriers that you have built against love.
~ Rumi

Western Tiger Swallowtail, Santa Maria, California 2008

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful then the

risk it took to blossom.

~ Anais Nin

California Flannelbush, Point Reyes National Seashore, California 2008

We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.

~ Japanese Proverb

Dancing Deer, Olympic National Park, Washington 2008

Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except

those who sang the best.

~ Henry van Dyke

 Western Meadowlark, Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge, California 2008

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
~ J.B. Priestley

Magnolia blossom, Charleston, South Carolina 2007