Joy Gower

“When I call to mind my earliest impressions, I wonder whether the process ordinarily referred to as growing up is not actually a process of growing down; whether experience, so much touted among adults as the thing children lack, is not actually a progressive dilution of the essentials by the trivialities of living.”
― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

“Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.”
― Thomas Carlyle

“Civilization has so cluttered this elemental man-earth relationship with gadgets and middlemen that awareness of it is growing dim. We fancy that industry supports us, forgetting what supports industry.”
― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

“Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.”
― Thomas Carlyle