“You learn your lessons from the mistakes you make, not the things you achieve.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 
“I was stationed at a marine recruit depot in San Diego from 1965 to 1967.”
Source : Bruce Catton (2011). “This Hallowed Ground: A History of the Civil War”, p.27, Vintage
“I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.”
“Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it until the test comes.”
“Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.”
“I didn't fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.”
Source : Twitter post from Mar 08, 2011
Aldo Leopold
Author
Annie Dillard
Author
Doug Peacock
Author
Henry David Thoreau
Author
John Burroughs
Essayist
John Muir
Author
Rachel Carson
Marine biologist
Wallace Stegner
Historian
Wendell Berry
Novelist
