"We're not too young for love, just too young for about everything there is that goes with love."

“You had this all planned, didn’t you?' I accused. 'Thought you could come in here and seduce me like you do everyone else?' It wasn’t as if I could be angry, lying atop him as I was, but I tried.”

“Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode - from the snapshot to the decisive moment to multi-media montage - the intent and purpose of photography is to render in visual terms feelings and experiences that often elude the ability of words to describe. In any case, the eyes have it, and the imagination will always soar farther than was expected.”

“Well, I was born and raised in Rochester, New York.”

Source : Interview with Rob Walker in San Francisco, California, as part of The Silicon Genesis Project with Stanford University, silicongenesis.stanford.edu. November 12, 2002.

“Among these treasures of our land is water-fast becoming our most valuable, most prized, most critical resource. A blessing where properly used-but it can bring devastation and ruin when left uncontrolled.”

“Your decision to walk creates the path ahead”

“It is the artistic mission to penetrate as far as may be toward that secret ground where primal law feeds growth.”

“What man really seeks is not perfection which is in the future, but fulfillment which is ever in the present.”

“In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness; we are each the uncompanioned hermit and recluse of an hour or a day; we understand our fellows of the cell to whatever age of history they may belong.”

Source : Sarah Orne Jewett (2016). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.72, Sarah Orne Jewett