Wednesday 19 December 2012
Sowing and Harvesting
"My soul is a broken field, plowed by pain."
Sara Teasdale, American poet (1884-1933)
Tuesday 18 December 2012
Eye to I
"Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf and take an insect view of its plain."
Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)
Sunday 16 December 2012
Take a good book at this
"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries."
René Descartes, philosopher and mathematician (1596-1650)
Friday 14 December 2012
Maurice Herzog just died
AFP.com
He paid for the glory [of climbing the Annapurna] in the form of several fingers and toes that had to be amputated because of frostbite.
"You can see what I have less of, but I feel what I have more of and it is incomparably greater," he later observed.
Thursday 13 December 2012
Wednesday 12 December 2012
Monday 10 December 2012
Dwritving
"Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights, but you make the whole trip that way."
E.L. Doctorow, writer (b. 1931)
Sunday 9 December 2012
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