Scott Cox

“Words floating in air, lines cut on a page, stanzas carved into units. Poetry is a mode of associative thinking that takes a different route to knowledge than philosophy, its ancient antagonist. It follows its own wayward but resolute path.”
― Edward Hirsch, Best American Poetry 2016

“The difference between accomplished birders and beginning birders is that accomplished birders have misidentified thousands of birds and beginning birders relatively few.”
― Lisa White, Good Birders Don't Wear White: 50 Tips from North America's Top Birders

“We are called to stand in for God here in the world, exercising stewardship over the rest of creation in his place as his vice regents. We share in doing the things that God has done in creation—bringing order out of chaos, creatively building a civilization out of the material of physical and human nature, caring for all that God has made. This is a major part of what we were created to be. . . . Work has dignity because it is something that God does and because we do it in God’s place, as his representatives.”
― Timothy J. Keller , Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World

“A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn