Mae Isabel

“Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.”
― Edward Abbey, Down the River

“I was perplexed as to what the usefulness of any of the arts might be, with the possible exception of interior decoration. The most positive notion I could come up with was what I call the canary-in-the-coal-mine theory of the arts. This theory argues that artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are supersensitive. They keel over like canaries in coal mines filled with poison gas, long before more robust types realize that any danger is there.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons

“The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.”
― Wallace Stevens

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

[John Muir to Samuel Hall Young]”
― Samuel Hall Young, Alaska Days With John Muir