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.

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

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

Do not live life without a spark of love.

...goals not bathed in prayer or brought in humility before the Lord turn out to be downright useless. They don't go anywhere. They don't accomplish anything.

That was what finally decided me. I wanted to be near him, to touch him, but what I really wanted more than that was answers, for the conflict within me to end. I needed control.

Peace and unity in our lives

I never thought in a million years I'd be that healthy girl who wakes up every morning to exercise. After being called 'cherubic and chubby, ' I'm rocking a bikini!

Don’t hold on to the old when you're being led somewhere new. Come out of your comfort zone.

This fastest of all games [hockey] has become almost as much of a national svmbol as the maple leaf.

The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

The distracted person, too, can form habits.