I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don’t find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges. ~William Albert Allard, “The Photographic Essay”
Baseball is an allegorical play about America, a poetic, complex, and subtle play of courage, fear, good luck, mistakes, patience about fate, and sober self-esteem. ~Saul Steinberg
If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature; and the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature. ~ John Burroughs
With watercolor, you can pick up the atmosphere, the temperature, the sound of snow sifting through the trees or over the ice of a small pond or against a window pane. Watercolor perfectly expresses the free side of my nature. ~ Andrew Wyeth
If organic farming is the natural way, shouldn’t organic produce just be called “produce” and make the pesticide-laden stuff take the burden of an adjective? ~Ymber Delecto
The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four – of secondary importance is to prepare for being five. ~Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook, 1985
Anytime the perfume of orange and lemon groves wafts in the window; the human body has to feel suffused with a languorous well-being. ~ Frances Mayes, Bella Tuscany