Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
~ Mark Twain

Western Screech Owl, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, Arizona 2008
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
~ Mark Twain

Western Screech Owl, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, Arizona 2008
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
~ Rumi

Blacksmith, Fort Snelling, St. Paul, Minnesota 2009
I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in the darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.
~ Hafiz

Heceta Head Lighthouse, Florence, Oregon 2018
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Red Alder Canopy, Lincoln City, Oregon 2018
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
~ Allard Lowenstein

Sunset, Central Oregon Coast 2018
Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges.
Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go.
~ Rudyard Kipling

Dusting of Snow on the Tucson Mountains, Tucson, Arizona 2011
Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being.
~ Rumi

Anna’s Hummingbird Feeding Chicks, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, Arizona 2014

Spotted on the outskirts of Mansfield, Ohio 2014
For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bison Rut, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota 2010
The meaning is not derived from the answers to these questions. The meaning is derived from asking them.
~ Chris Larson

Brooklyn Bridge, New York, New York 2012