Bushtit Nest

Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing.

~Albert Schweitzer

Eastern Grey Squirrel

I don't know what I am thinking
I don't know what I am drinking
I don't know what pills I swallow
I don't know that inside I'm hollow
I don't know that I am speaking
I don't know that my brain is leaking
I don't know that they cant see
I don't know, especially me

~Tim Burton

Rufus Hummingbird

If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something,
I can neither give nor receive.
~Dorothee Solle

Stream

Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.
~Barbara Hall,
A Summons to New Orleans, 2000

Sunset

Nobody can tell you if what you're doing is good, meaningful or worthwhile. The more compelling the path, the more lonely it is.

~Hugh Macleod,
How To Be Creative: 5, 08-22-04

Golden-crowned Sparrow

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a
journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
~Marcel Proust
French novelist (1871 - 1922)

Chestnut-backed Chickadee

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
~Abraham Lincoln
16th president of US (1809 - 1865)

Momentum

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction
when it could be turned into momentum.
~Frances Willard (1839 - 1898)

Tule Elk

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

~Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000

Riding

It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.
~unknown

Sunrise

You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

~John Wooden (1910 - )

Duckling

We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.
~unknown

Washington Coast

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...
But I am too busy thinking about myself.
~Edith Sitwell, As quoted in The Observer (30 April 1950)
English biographer, critic, novelist, & poet (1887 - 1964)