Moving Mountains

"That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains."

-STEVE JOBS-

Nature's Heart

"Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean."

-JOHN MUIR-

Tidy Home

"There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea."

-GARY SNYDER-

The Greater Part of Life

"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine."

-THOMAS JEFFERSON-

Cold Front

"The day cold and fair with a high easterly wind: we were visited by two Indians who gave us an account of the country and people near the Rocky mountains where they had been."

-MERIWETHER LEWIS-

MEAL-TIME

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend."

-MELODY BEATTIE-

Nature At Work

"Statistics vary, but in less than seven years there won't be a single cell left in any of our bodies that's the same as it is today. This means that any human being who 'wants' to change is like a mountain river wanting to reach the valley floor. It's a done deal; that's what mountain rivers do, and 'changing' should be our first nature."

-GUY FINLEY-

Buffalo Country

"Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also."

-SITTING BULL-

Creasted Butte

"Right out of the University of California I had passed the bar, but Colorado was one of those places where anybody could come and nobody would ask what your background was or how long you had been here. So I took to the place with a liking."

-RICHARD LAMM-

Spring Has Come

"Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come."

-ROBERT H. SCHULLER-

Roughing it

"A guy's who has all the money he needs and never faced any hard times, he won't have any character. But when you've had it tough and you've had it rough and you thought you were at the end of the rope and you work your way out of it, that's the way you build character."

-BOBBY BOWDEN-

The Eldo

"I have way too shady a background to get into politics. I was a crazy kid - I was in bands, and I don't think I'd get very far before people started digging up stuff I didn't want them to see."

-MICHAEL KELLY-

Highway 69

"Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success."

-OG MANDINO-

Drug Store

"I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs."

-JERRY GARCIA-

SIMPLY TRADITION

"What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke. Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too."

-ANDY WARHOL-

PRIVATE FLIGHT

"A career is born in public - talent in privacy."

 

-MARILYNN MONROE-

HANDS

"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not."

-GEORGIA O'KEEFFE-

TRUTH

"The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'."

-DAN RATHER-

DESIRE

"The most important thing is to have a good relationship with the bike... you have to understand what she wants. I think of a motorcycle as a woman, and I know that sounds silly, but it's true."

-VALENTINO ROSSI-

FENCED

"It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions."

-JIM ROHN-

BEAUTY

"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."

-ANNE FRANK-

DETAIL

"To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail."

-GIORGIO ARMANI-

SQUIRREL

"If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence."

-GEORGE ELIOT-

TODAY IS HAPPENING

"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today."

-DALE CARNEGIE-

VIEW

"When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen."

-STEPHEN COVE-

SOFT WATERS

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time."

-JOHN LUBBOCK-

MOLDING THE FUTURE

"A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown."

-DENIS WAITLEY-

LET GROW

"Love is the flower you've got to let grow."

-JOHN LENNON-

THROUGH THE HOURS OF THE NIGHT

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."

-E. E. CUMMINGS-

A DESERTED SUNSET

"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."

-JOHN RUSKIN-