McNeil

“I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.”
― Anita Brookner

“I'm grateful for anything that reminds me of what's possible in this life. Books can do that. Films can do that. Music can do that. School can do that. It's so easy to allow one day to simply follow into the next, but every once in a while we encounter something that shows us that anything is possible, that dramatic change is possible, that something new can be made, that laughter can be shared.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

“The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.”
― P.D. James, The Children of Men