And what is Life? - An hour-glass on the run

If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.

Language has not the power to speak what love indites: The soul lies buried in the ink that writes.

I found the poems in the fields And only wrote them down

Love lives with Nature, not with lust. Go find her in the flowers.

The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of trying to do nothing.

The present is the funeral of the past, And man the living sepulchre of life.

I ne'er was struck before that hour with love so sudden and so sweet. Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower and stole my heart away complete

For Nature is love, and finds haunts for true love, Where nothing can hear or intrude; It hides from the eagle and joins with the dove, In beautiful green solitude.

Burning hot is the ground, liquid gold is the air; Whoever looks round sees Eternity there.

I long for scenes where man has never trod;... There to abide with my Creator, God.

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

And later, if I ever felt that I was getting swept away by the craziness of being in a band, well, I'd go back to Virginia.

It never really occurred to me to believe in God.

The easily embarrassed doesn't learn

Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.

Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward.

Will you ask God to bring you to the place where you're willing to be willing?

I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.

Power, true power, comes from within. Not without. (Nick)

But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.