“The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.”

Urging attention to the possibilities present in ordinary surroundings · Essay The Art of Seeing

• Hope
• Nature
• Truth

“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.”

Expressing an abundant appetite for thought, experience, reading, and friendship · Book The Summit of the Years

• Friendship
• Joy
• Time

“How beautiful a day can be when one is touched by nature.”

Celebrating the renewing effect of direct contact with the natural world · Essay The Art of Seeing

• Beauty
• Joy
• Nature

“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.”

Presenting nature as a source of restoration and inward balance · Essay The Art of Seeing

• Hope
• Nature