And if you are lost enough to find yourself…

~ Robert Frost

Saguaro blossom, Tucson, Arizona 2011

Life has to be a little nuts sometimes. Otherwise it’s just a bunch of Thursdays strung together.

~ Beau Burroughs (from the movie Rumor Has It)

Bobcat, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, Arizona 2015

Promise me you’ll always remember: you’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

~ Christopher Robin to Pooh (in 1997 movie, Pooh’s Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin)

Yellow-bellied Marmot, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado 2010

I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.

~ Wernher von Braun

Northern Shoveler Drake, Sweetwater Wetlands, Tucson, Arizona 2011

A key to a vital life is an eagerness to learn and a willingness to change.

~ Mary Anne Radmacher

Bighorn Sheep Ram, Glacier National Park, Montana 2008 

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

~ David Brower

Shipwreck of the Mary Ann, Jekyll Island, Georgia 2007

I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.

~ John Steinbeck

Garter Snake, near Bend, Oregon 2008

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

~ Naguib Mahfouz

Yellow Woolly Bear Caterpillar (Spilosoma virginica), St. Louis, Missouri 2009

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.
~ Robert Quillen

Brown Pelican Close-up, Oceanside, California 2015

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

~ Hans Christian Andersen

Moon Street Art, Superior, Arizona 2006