Dave Russell

“For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“God, let me remember all good losers.”
― Carl Sandburg

“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

“For we, which now behold these present days,
Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.”
― William Shakespeare