It's amazing how large the things are that it's possible to overlook.
All farms are much alike everywhere, and all wild places have their own beauty.
Peace means something different from 'not fighting'. Those aren't peace advocates, they're 'stop fighting' advocates. Peace is an active and complex thing and sometimes fighting is part of what it takes to get it.
If you love books enough, books will love you back.
Before I got glasses, I thought Monet was the world's only realist landscape painter.
Reading is awesome and flexible and fits around chores and earning money and building the future and whatever else I’m doing that day. My attitude towards reading is entirely Epicurean—reading is pleasure and I pursue it purely because I like it.