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[Don Boyd]

O.K., here's one that was written just for us by Peter Matthiessen:

Soon the child's clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor of the ego. Not until years later does an instinct come that a vital sense of mystery has been withdrawn. The sun glints through the pines, and the heart is pierced in a moment of beauty and strange pain, like a memory of paradise. After that day . . . we become seekers.

There probably isn't one of us that hasn't felt that pain, and it is so bad that we continually look for it.

[Hugo Zhang]

"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost." _Gustave Flaubert

[Duane Polcou]

"I don't know why people talk about photography so much. I just go ahead and do it."
- Brett Weston

[Maris Rusis]

"It is good to be open-minded but not so open-minded that one's brains fall out." Bertrand Russell.

[Randy H]

"As Americans we must always remember that we all have a common enemy, an enemy that is dangerous, powerful and relentless. I refer, of course, to the federal government." -- Dave Barry

And on a lighter note:

"Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye if the beholder" -- Dr Laurence Peter and Raymond Hull

"A seven bath developer is no substitute for thought" -- Terence Donovan

[Hugo Zhang]

"Close your eyes and see." -Stephen Dedalus.