Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.

Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.

No matter how politely one says it, we owe our existence to the farts of blue-green algae.

Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.

The heart is a museum, filled with the exhibits of a lifetime's loves.

We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.

Storm Sister--a friend who sticks close when storms hit her friend's life.

My goodness, I'm like a hog at a trough!

As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it absolutely.

It doesn't hurt to look 75 to 100 years out, That's a gift to future generations.

Government should steer, not row.

Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.

Children who played outside every day, regrdless of weather, had better motor coordination and more ability to concentrate.

I shall have peace, as leafy trees are peaceful when rain bends down the bough; And I shall be more silent and cold hearted than you are now.

Rather than compare yourself to others, compare your present progress with your potential.

Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is I just say: Life today.