"Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in."
— Wallace Stegner

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. "
— Annie Dillard

"The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves and not to twist them to fit our own image."
— Thomas Merton

"I box in yellow Gox box socks."
— Dr. Seuss (One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish)

"Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream.
I'm not, she said."
— Richard Brautigan (Trout Fishing in America)