Man, for all his daylight activities, is, at best, an evening creature. Our every addiction to the day and our compulsion, manifest through the ages, to invent and use illuminating devices, to contest with midnight, to cast off sleep as we would death, suggest that we know more of the shadows than we are willing to recognize. --- Loren Eiseley, Unexpected Universe

           With the scorching prairie fires, it came. With the surging floods, it came. With the defensive Indians, it came. With every step, death came to the wagon trains. --- Kati Moseley

           Between what breathes absolute death and what breathes glorious life, between what laughs and what never cries, between the hope of joy and the fear of pain, lies the emotion of the soul. --- Christi Flick

           With the cutting of each branch, with the sawing of each tree, with the depletion of each forest, the world continues to lose valuable wilderness." --- Annie Diorio

          I had always marveled at the Bellerbys. They seemed to me to be survivors from another age and their world had a timeless quality. They were never in a hurry; they rose when it was light, went to bed when they were tired, ate when they were hungry and seldom looked at a clock. --- James Herriot, All Creatures Great and Small