If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
Immerse yourself in nature’s symphony and let your senses burst with joy.
The place where you lose the trail is not necessarily the place where it ends.
If today I had a young mind to direct, to start on the journey of life, and I was faced with the duty of choosing between the natural way of my forefathers and that of the. . . present way of civilization, I would, for its welfare, unhesitatingly set that child's feet in the path of my forefathers. I would raise him to be an Indian!
We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.
The first track is the end of a string. At the far end, a being is moving; a mystery, dropping a hint about itself every so many feet, telling you more about itself until you can almost see it, even before you come to it. The mystery reveals itself slowly, track by track, giving its genealogy early to coax you in. Further on, it will tell you the intimate details of its life and work, until you know the maker of the track like a lifelong friend.
This earth is a garden, this life a banquet, and it's time we realized that it was given to all life, animal and man, to enjoy.
Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.
Don't look now, but that's my ex over there. " Surely I'm not the only one who takes "don't look now" as "there's no better time than now. " I looked. "Bad, Ali!" Another slap to my arm. "Bad, bad, bad Ali! Have you no self control?
Zane brought her hand to his chest, over his heart and she felt the strong rapid beat through his shirt. “Feel that?” His throat worked as he swallowed. “It would break if I fell for you and anything happened that would take you away from me. ” --Zane to Willow in 'The Edge of Sin' in the Real Men Last all Night anthology
As a kid I had a crush on Sophia Loren and Raquel Welch.