“I really am a recluse. I just enjoy watching the wind blow through the trees. In America someone who sits around and does that is at the bottom of the ladder, but in Japan, say, someone who goes up into the mountains is accorded great respect. I guess I am somewhere in between. I enjoy reclusion: it clears my mind.” MindDoeAmericaEnjoyTreeWindMountainBottomBlowJapanLaddersGreat RespectRecluse Author:Robert M. Pirsig
“Books, gentlemen, are a species of men, and introduced to them you circulate in the "very best society" that this world can furnish, without the intolerable infliction of "dressing" to go into it. In your shabbiest coat and cosiest slippers you may socially chat even with the fastidious Earl of Chesterfield, and lounging under a tree enjoy the divinest intimacy with my late lord of Verulam.” MenWorldMayBookReadingEnjoyLordTreeThis WorldLateSpeciesIntimacyGentlemanReading BooksCoatsDressingsSlippersFastidiousInflictionLounging Book:Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)
“Maybe we need to fall on the common-sense side of protecting these species, but continue harvesting wood products we all use and enjoy. We've got to be able to do both - protect water quality and species, as well as harvest trees.” NeedsWellsUseAbleFallEnjoySidesWaterCommonQualityTreeProductsProtectSpeciesWoodsCommon SenseHarvestWater Quality Author:John Hancock