"Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn. "

~ Quoted by Lewis Grizzard in Kathy Sue Loudermilk, I Love You

"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do."

~ Edgar Degas

"It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry."

~ Joe Moore

"Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image."

~ Aldous Huxley

Spa Sooden, Allendorf, Germany

Cormorant fisherman on Li river

"When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all."

~ E. O. Wilson

"I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here."

~ Wislawa Szymborska