Elizabeth

“Love doesn't die; the men and women do.”
― William Faulkner, The Wild Palms

“There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature…yes, that's it: just thinking about trees and their indifferent majesty and our love for them teaches us how ridiculous we are - vile parasites squirming on the surface of the earth - and at the same time how deserving of life we can be, when we can honor this beauty that owes us nothing.”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
― Benjamin Franklin Wade

“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
― Mark Twain