If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning.

~ Catherine Aird

Peeing Elk, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming 2008

In time and with water, everything changes.

~ Leonardo da Vinci

Surf, Heceta Head, Oregon May 2018

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

~ A.A. Milne

Columbia River, Portland, Oregon 2014

Little by little one travels far.

~ Spanish proverb

Snail, Portland, Oregon 2013

All serious daring starts from within.

~ Eudora Welty

Harris’s Antelope Squirrel (Ammospermophilus harrisii), Tucson, Arizona 2010

Begin each day as if it were on purpose.
~ Mary Anne Radmacher

Dandelion Puff Ball, Lincoln City, Oregon 2018

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

Ropes Course, Tucson, Arizona 2010

Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Full Moon, Tucson, Arizona 06-2013

One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.

~ Goethe

Central Park, New York, New York 2012

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Male Mallard, Sweetwater Wetlands, Tucson, Arizona 2008