Mark Twain

"Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get." - Mark Twain

Tom Lehrer

"Bad weather always looks worse through a window." - Tom Lehrer

Samuel Butler

"Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning." - Samuel Butler

Marcus Tullius Cicero

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need." - Marcus Tullius Cicero

A. R. Ammons

"In nature there are few sharp lines." - A. R. Ammons

John Keats

"The poetry of the earth is never dead." - John Keats

Charles Lindbergh

"If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes." - Charles Lindbergh