Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

~ T.S. Eliot

Bull Elk, Yellowstone National Park 2008

The sight of the stars always makes me dream.

~ Vincent van Gogh

Full Moon, Tucson, Arizona 2011

Everything you can imagine is real.

~ Pablo Picasso

Ring-necked Pheasant, Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge, California/Oregon 2008

Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.

~ Ruth Ann Schabacker

Colorful Leaves, Orange, Massachusetts 2007

Between every two pine trees is a doorway leading to a new way of life.

~ John Muir

Cape Disappointment State Park, Ilwaco, Washington 2013

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Tail End of a Diamond-backed Rattlesnake, Sweetwater Wetlands, Tucson, Arizona 2014

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.

~ Michael Altshuler

Black Skimmers, Port Aransas, Texas 2007

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

~ Willa Cather

Boat in the Fog, Bar Harbor, Acadia National Park, Maine 2007

Let us endeavor to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

~ Mark Twain

Grave Marker, Pinal City Cemetery, Superior, Arizona 2005

It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one’s sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and imperfectly, how to read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Saguaro Arm, Tucson, Arizona 2009