"Only interested in everything." - Les Murray -

Section III - Of the Truth of Skies - Chapter 1 - 'Of the Open Sky' - John Ruskin -

"To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wildflower: Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour." - William Blake -

"To be only my original self – to be what is the strongest urge in my depth – to walk on a mountain alone – really alone in a wild place, & not want to meet a soul, & that is really true, & it is the urge & the flame & it needs no fanning" - Elizabeth (Betty) Smart -

"Take a free road and follow where your free mind leads you, bring to perfection the fruits of well loved thought, ask for no reward for noble deeds accomplished. Rewards are within you. Your supreme judge is yourself. None will ever judge your works more sternly." - Alexander Pushkin -

“I demolish the bridges behind me - Then there is no choice but to move forward.” - Fridtjof Nansen -

"The exceeding beauty of the earth, in her splendour of life, yields a new thought with every petal. The hours when the mind is absorbed by beauty are the only hours we live. All else is illusion, or mere endurance." - Richard Jefferies -