How do we accurately evoke land we love? What should we even call the world we walk and drive through-scenery, landscape?

Individualism and mobility are at the core of American identity

We are so habitually nostalgic by now that we anticipate looking back in the midst of enjoyment, look forward to watching the videos we're taking of our children even as we make them.

In choosing where to live or vacation, we may be setting the stage for the play of ourselves, treating nature as prop.

I read the landscape to help me through, to know what's come before me there, to find my footing in time.

The extent and condition of our property, and our choice of style in dwelling, create a powerful emblem of our identity and status.

Home is where we know - and are known - through accumulated experience.

It's life. You deal with it or you don't.

What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.

I've always been able to decide what was more important at different points in my life, but I never gave up personal things to work, never.

Although his personality is generally quite agreeable, Mr Murdoch has no loyalty to anyone or anything except his company.

At times our need for a sympathetic gesture is so great that we care not what exactly it signifies or how much we may have to pay for it afterwards.

Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.

Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's.

Stop living worried & discouraged. You have a Protector, Deliverer & Dream-Giver. No weapon formed against you can prosper.

They said you have to use your five best players but I found you win with the five who fit together the best.

Seriously, I've just realized that almost everyone is a fraud, so I try not to feel too bad about it.