A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

All walking is discovery. On foot we take the time to see things whole.

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

There it is, fog, atmospheric moisture still uncertain in destination, not quite weather and not altogether mood, yet partaking of both.

As I stood and watched the mists slowly rising this morning I wondered what view was more beautiful than this.

Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

April is a promise that May is bound to keep.

You can only be your brother's keeper if he allows you

What's the point in having a mind if you don't use it to make judgements?

Make no mistake, little human. You are under my protection now, and I protect what is mine.

...there is no better time to examine and understand one’s selfhood than when it is dissected and hurtling through darkness.

Prayer is a rising up and a drawing near to God in mind and in heart, and in spirit.

Healthcare system is broken without lifetime employment.

If only people who are ideologically committed to a particular outcome argued to the courts, the law would be worse off.

If Donald Trump wants to fire somebody for not getting Obamacare repealed, he should fire himself.

Objects are inorganic and biological values; subjects are social and intellectual values.

Of all the 'attitudes' we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is the most important and by far the most life-changing.