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“Curiosity is the thirst of the soul.”
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784). In “The Rambler” (English Journal), 103, 12 March 1751

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My apologies: My wife and I were gone this weekend past, to Hood River Oregon, where we attended her niece’s wedding. A beautiful event and I have pictures to show it….HOWEVER, during the download process on Sunday evening my hard drive melted down! I’m now in the process of getting a replacement hard [...]

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“THE nightingale has a lyre of gold,The lark’s is a clarion call,And the blackbird plays but a boxwood flute,But I love him best of all…”

William Ernest Henley. 1849–1903, “The Blackbird”

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“Tis distance lends enchantment to the view,And robes the mountain in its azure hue.”

Thomas Campbell (1777-1844). The Pleasures of Hope, 1.7, 1799

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Bernard Law Montgomery: “They say that familiarity breeds contempt.”
Churchill: “I would like to remind you that without a degree of familiarity we could not breed anything.”
Winston Churchill (1874-1965) After suggesting to Field Marshal Montgomery before the Battle of El Alamein (Egypt) that he study logistics, 1942. In William Manchester, “Preamble: The Lion at [...]

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“Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.”
John Muir (1838-1914) “Our National Parks”, 3 (closing words), 1901

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“Yon wild mossy mountains sae lofty and wide,
That nurse in their bosom the youth o’ the Clyde,
Where the grouse lead their coveys thro’ the heather to feed,
And the shepherd tends his flock as he pipes on his reed…”

Robert Burns, “Song—Yon Wild Mossy Mountains”
Volume: Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. Year: Published/Written in 1786

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“It seems to me that Montana is a great splash of grandeur. The scale is huge but not overpowering. The land is rich with grass and color, and the mountains are the kind I would create if mountains were ever put on my agenda.”

John Steinbeck (1902-1968) ‘Travels With Charley: In Search of America” 3, [...]

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“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
James Baldwin (1924-1987). ‘Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son, 3, 1961

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“The toddler craves independence but…fears desertion.”

Dorothy Corkville Briggs

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