"I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up.
I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain.
I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions.
Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace."
  ~~Linda McCartney

"Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy."
  ~~Benjamin Franklin

"I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun.
I was born where there were no enclosures."

  ~~Geronimo

"Old white paint, chipped and faded cover twenty-four aged pieces of wood needing desperately to be replaced and hanging merely by a rickety, rusted chain." 
  ~~Kelly Westpfahl

“Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.”
  ~~Dan Rather

"I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man."
  ~~Henry David Thoreau

"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the cornfield."
  ~~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

"A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature.
It is earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature."
  ~~Henry David Thoreau

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
  ~~ Indira Gandhi