Related:

• One is constantly reminded of the infinite lavishness and fertility of Nature -- inexhaustible abundance amid what seems enormous waste.
  And yet when we look into any of her operations that lie within reach of our minds, we learn that no particle of her material is wasted or worn out....
• Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands, in which one gains the advantages of both solitude and society.
  Nowhere will you find more company of a soothing peace-be- still kind....
• If my soul could get away from this so-called prison, be granted all the list of attributes generally bestowed on spirits, my first ramble on spirit-wings would not be among the volcanoes of the moon.
  Nor should I follow the sunbeams to their sources in the sun....
• One of the questions that comes up all the time i
  How enthusiastic is our support for UNIX? Unix was written on our machines and for our machines many years ago....
• foo /foo/ 1. interj. Term of disgust. 2. [very common] Used very generally as a sample name for absolutely anything, esp.
  programs and files (esp. scratch files). 3. First on the standard list of metasyntactic variables used in syntax examples....
• No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glacie
  or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening - still all is Beauty!...
• grue n. [from archaic English verb for `shudder'
  as with fear] The grue was originated in the game Zork (Dave Lebling took the name from Jack Vance's "Dying Earth" fantasies) and used in several other Infocom games as a hint that you should perhaps look for a lamp, torch or some type of light source....
• Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike.
  -- John Muir, American Naturalist (1838-1914)...
• One of the questions that comes up all the time i
  How enthusiastic is our support for UNIX? Unix was written on our machines and for our machines many years ago....