Boldness...

"Boldness has genius, and magic and power in it."    -- John Anster's interpretation of  Goethe

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Adults follow paths...

"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."  --

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In water...

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

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Once inside a wood...

"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

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With freedom...

"With freedom, books, flowers & the moon, who could not be happy?"  -- Oscar Wilde

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Those who dwell...

"Those who dwell among the beauties & mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life."  Rachel Carson

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The free exploring mind...

"The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world." -- John Steinbeck

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