When mankind pushes, natures sometimes pushes back

Guns, grendels, or nuclear bombs; take your pick.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

Always respect Mother Nature. Especially when she weighs 400 pounds and is guarding her baby.

The strong were always eating the weak.

Gray imagined Kat scolding her husband in an operatic duet that has been going on between husbands and wives for ages, that eternal mix of exasperation and love." -- James Rollins

I read anything I could get my hands on: science fiction, fantasy, horror, thrillers. I even became hooked on the Bantam reprints of the old pulp novels from thirties and forties: Doc Savage, The Shadow, The Avenger.