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

You are the truth from foot to brow. Now, what else would you like to know?

~ Rumi

Juvenile Red-tailed Hawk, Sweetwater Wetlands, Tucson, Arizona 2012

Seek not, my soul, immortal life, but make the most of the resources that are within your reach.

~ Pindar

Dune, Monahans Sandhills State Park, Monahans, Texas 2007

I do not know everything, still many things I understand.

~ Goethe

Painted Lady Butterfly, Portland, Oregon 2012

The happiest people are not the people without problems, but the people who know how to solve them.

~ Robert Seashore

Cleaning the Fresnel Lens, Yaquina Head Lighthouse, Newport, Oregon 2006

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, “Wow! What a ride!”

~ Hunter S. Thompson

End of the Day, Rodeo, New Mexico 2009