“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
― Mark Twain
Railroad Vine
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“Adversity is neither friend nor foe. It is a common acquaintance that is desired less and rewarded most when embraced.”
― Carolyn Wells
More Coreopsis
“There is, as yet, no sense of pride in the husbandry of wild plants and animals, no sense of shame in the proprietorship of a sick landscape.”
― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
Thursday
“Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife, are in fact plans to protect man.”
― Stewart L. Udall
Grass-leaved Arrowhead
“Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.”
― Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Narrow Leaved Blue Eye Grass
“Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.”
― E.O. Wilson
Oakleaf Fleabane
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
Can’t Resist These
“There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.”
―
Bud
“The chief beauty about time
is that you cannot waste it in advance.
The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you,
as perfect, as unspoiled,
as if you had never wasted or misapplied
a single moment in all your life.
You can turn over a new leaf every hour
if you choose.”
―
Mexican Clover
“[…] smiles are the foundation of beauty.”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs
Picture This by Frank 