Getting up too early is a vice habitual in horned owls, stars, geese, and freight trains. Some hunters acquire it from geese, and some coffee pots from hunters.

That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics. That lands yields a cultural harvest is a fact long known, but latterly often forgotten.

Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf.

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty.