What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?

How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!

Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?

I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt.

...surely I could give him--a sort of contentment... That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver.

Many dogs can understand almost every word humans say, while humans seldom learn to recognize more than half a dozen barks, if that. And barks are only a small part of the dog language. A wagging tail can mean so many things. Humans know that it means a dog is pleased, but not what a dog is saying about his pleasedness.

I like seeing people when they can't see me.