Spring Travels 2011

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive,

but it is the lightning that does the work.

-Mark Twain



I like trees because

they seem more resigned

to the way they have to live

than other things do.

-Willa Cather, O Pioneers



It is unfair

to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious;

he learned the habit from nature.

-Christopher Moreley, Inward Ho!



Never does nature say one thing

and wisdom another.

-Juvenal, Satires



Silently one by one,

in the infinite meadows of heaven,

blossomed the lovely stars,

the forget-me-nots of the angels.

-Longfellow, Evangeline



The whole secret of the study of nature

lies in learning how to use one's eyes.

-George Sand



Someone said to Socrates

that a certain man had

grown no better by his travels.

"I should think not," he said:

"he took himself along with him."

-Michel de Montaigne



A traveler.

I love his title.

A traveler is to be reverenced as such.

His profession is the best symbol of our life.

Going from--toward;

it is the history of every one of us.

-Henry David Thoreau