"Boldness has genius, and magic and power in it."   

-- John Anster's interpretation of  Goethe

"Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences."  -- Neil Gaiman Ocean at the End of the Lane.


"In water all possibilities seem infinitely extended."  
--Roger Deakin, Waterlog


"Once inside a wood, you walk on something very like a seabed, looking up at the canopy of leaves as if it were the surface of the water, filtering the descending shafts of light & dappling everything."  -- Roger Deakin Wildwood
"With freedom, books, flowers & the moon, who could not be happy?"  -- Oscar Wilde
"Those who dwell among the beauties & mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life."  Rachel Carson
"The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world." -- John Steinbeck