Making Sense

"With least abode where best I feel content."
Shakespeare

"When most impeach'd stands least in thy control."
17th Earle of Oxforde

Swans sing before they die,
Samuel Taylor Coleridge


A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.
John Muir


Happiness is about earning the esteem of others, behaving ethically, contributing selflessly to human betterment and assuaging the need to belong. We have finally understood it is not economic growth that delivers these results - it is the way we behave. Will Hutton, Guardian


How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
John Muir


Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
Francis Bacon