You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

~ Mae West

Peregrine Falcon, Audubon Society of Portland, Portland, Oregon 2012

I’ve learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life.

~ Maya Angelou

Glassblower at Work, Alder House, Lincoln City, Oregon 2018

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.

~ Shakespeare

Heceta Head Lighthouse, Florence, Oregon 2018

It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one’s balance.

~ Albert Einstein

Bicycle on the Beach, Jekyll Island, Georgia 2007

Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.

~ Wendell Johnson

Alligator, Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, Folkston, Georgia 2007

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

~ George Santayana

Hibiscus Flower, Independence, Missouri 2010

Acknowledging a mistake just means that you are wiser today than you were yesterday.

~ Kelly Ann Rothaus

Yaquina Head Lighthouse, Newport, Oregon 2018

And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.

~ John Muir

Ozette Loop Trail, Olympic National Park, Washington 2018

What we have once enjoyed, we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes part of us.

~ Helen Keller

Indian Paintbrush, Glacier National Park, Montana 2018

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

~ Émile Zola

Bison Fight, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota 2010