I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. – Vita Sackville-West, Country Notes
People tell me that the countryside must always be stupid and backward, and I get angry, as if it were said that only townspeople had immortal souls, and that it was only in the city that the flame of divinity breathed into the first men had an unobscured glow. – George William Russell
There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets. – Samuel Johnson
If you listed all the reasons for your faith, and all the things that make you cry, it would be essentially the same list. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
I want to be able to look back and say, Ive done everything I can, and I was successful. I dont want to look back and say I should have done this or that. Id like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along. – Michael Phelps
