Dryness promotes the formation of flower buds...flowering is, after all, not an aesthetic contribution, but a survival mechanism.

A beaver does not, as legend would have it, know which direction the tree will fall when he cuts it, but counts on alacrity to make up for lack of engineering expertise.

When there is a river in your growing up, you probably always hear it

Flies are the price we pay for summer.

The sky is a meadow of wildstar flowers.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

Employment sells out the essence of life

Man-eaters are finally shot dead.

This is what fun is like, " said Rain, almost to herself.

Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer.

Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.

Con men look for human frailty to exploit. This is most often greed. Trump found a different vice: anger. The emotional are always the most susceptible to manipulation.

As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.

You can never compare two players that are different, they're never going to be the same.

If it's unenvironmental it is uneconomical. That is the rule of nature