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There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

Samuel JohnsonLexicographer, via Boswell, 1776

To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel.

Aldo LeopoldForester, A Sand County Almanac, 1949

The god of the bees is the future.

Maurice MaeterlinckThe Life of the Bee, 1901

Keep thy shop, & thy shop will keep thee.

Benjamin FranklinPoor Richard’s Almanack, 1735

A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.

Rachel CarsonBiologist, The Sense of Wonder, 1965

I am on the verge of mysteries, and the veil which covers them is getting thinner and thinner.

Louis PasteurChemist and microbiologist, 1851

Man has just cause for regret when he sows and no one reaps.

Charles GoodyearInventor of vulcanised rubber, 1853

Eating is an agricultural act.

Wendell BerryKentucky farmer and essayist

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

Jane JacobsUrbanist, Toronto

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt26th U.S. President, 1903

Safety and certainty in oil lie in variety, and in variety alone.

Winston ChurchillHouse of Commons, 1913

There is the fascination of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper.

Herbert HooverMining engineer, 31st U.S. President

Work is love made visible.

Kahlil GibranPoet, The Prophet, 1923

Toil conquered the world, unrelenting toil.

VirgilGeorgics, 29 BC

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

Richard FeynmanPhysicist, Challenger report, 1986

From land to land is the most concise definition of a ship’s earthly fate.

Joseph ConradNovelist and master mariner, 1906

We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.

Henry David ThoreauWalden, 1854

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl JungPsychiatrist, Modern Man in Search of a Soul, 1933

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