Windy Philosophers Gifts

Girl to mother regarding blowing wind: 'I wish the wind would breathe in.'

'You lifted your head.'

He can identify a fly taken by a trout at fifty yards range.

Kid to fellow fisherman: 'Why do they stink like fish when they've been bathing this whole time?'

"He's declared it an area of natural beauty"

Winter Weather.

'Agreed, 40 years is a long time to wander around, but think of the travel expenses.'

"Do you think the birds like me?"

Of pitting his own wits against their natural cunning

"Take your first left and then keep turning left until you eventually float to the top."

'I'm afraid I'll fall and no one will hear me.'

Deer against capital punishment about to be shot.

"Tracks of black bear cub... Tracks of black bear mother... Tracks of Henry David Thoreau."

"My parents are going to pay for my education but I'm on my own for any attorney's fees."

The Boys of Indian Summer

'I respond to stimuli, therefore I ham.'

''Faith can move mountains'? -- That's actually a little disturbing.'

'By George, this one I think I'm going to like!'

'It had taken some time, but the finding of a spaghetti junction brought immense satisfaction.'

The Farmer Sutra.

"I've never read such utter nonsense! There's a guy here reckons we're all living in some kind of computer simulation!!"

"I love the way it blurs the boundary between inside and out."

"I swear, we spend more time decided which squirrel to bark at than we do actually barking at it."

'I became a bit claustrophobic living in a warren all the time: I prefer camping out now...'

'A little madness in the Spring is wholesome even for the King' -Emily Dickinson.

Fish Food

"They think I don't have a clue."

"Did you ever notice, the snow is always whiter on the other side of the glacier?"

'It's almost time to get the cross-country skis out and dust them off.'

"Why can't they call it a 'Deer' or a 'Squirrel' market?"

"I'm sorry your girlfriend left you, Frank...but you must concentrate on the job!"

Caution - Poet at work

'Well, that answers that age-old question. According to the tape, the chicken came first. . . which brings up another age-old question: is the last one a rotten egg?'

Can we see our way clear to doing something about air pollution?

No crawling sign in the desert.