“The real jewel of my disease-ridden woodlot is the prothonotary warbler. ... The flash of his gold-and-blue plumage amid the dank decay of the June woods is in itself proof that dead trees are transmuted into living animals, and vice versa.” RealAnimalTreeDiseaseGoldBlueVicesWoodsProofDecayFlashJewelsJuneVice VersaDankDead Trees Book:Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238) Source: Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)
“Disease is surely one of the ways in which we are tried by life and offered the chance to be heroic. Though few of us will win Olympic gold medals or slay dragons, disease can be the spark or gift that allows many of us to live out our personal myths and become heroes.” WayWinningChanceHeroDiseaseGoldMythDragonsSparksHeroicMedalGold Medals Author:Bernie Siegel
“Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosophers stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'Tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health; hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.” MenSoulBodyLandDivineDiseaseStonesGoldPhilosopherViolentRuinsSmokingGoodsRemedySovereignPlagueTobaccoMischiefAleDevilishPanacea Author:Robert A. Burton
“The cross stands as the final symbol that no evil exists that God cannot turn into a blessing. He is the living Alchemist who can take the dregs from the slag-heaps of life - disappointment, frustration, sorrow, disease, death, economic loss, heartache - and transform the dregs into gold.” TurnsEvilLossEconomicSorrowBlessingDiseaseCrossesGoldFinalsDisappointmentSymbolsHeartacheFrustrationAlchemistDregsSlagLife Disappointment Author:Catherine Marshall
“Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.” YearsWarHumanityPeaceThousandShapesDiseaseGoldRingsLustThousand YearsFoul Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson