"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers."
~ Charles W. Eliot
"He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot."
~ Arabic Proverb
Today's word is Mother Earth. We celebrate Earth Day today.
"If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."
~ Henry David Thoreau Author, naturalist 1817-1862
"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time." ~John Lubbock