Wintertime Philosopher Gifts

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

Lemniskate

"The overthinker"

'I know I'm still in the Juniors, but I already need a therapist.'

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

Winter Weather.

"Do you think the birds like me?"

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

'All this is nuthin! There was one yeaw up noth...when it snowed fah two yeaws! I had t'dig down ten feet t'haul in my lobstah traps.'

"Honey, wake up. I had that dream again where I wake up and you get angry at me for waking you up."

"Someday, son, a giant conglomerate will find a way to harness the moonlight and make us pay for it."

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

The Farmer Sutra.

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

"I also have trouble sleeping. I don't understand why. No one I talk to seems to have any trouble falling asleep."

'No, I'm not writing to Santa, I'm writing a blog questioning the validity of Santa, since he has no web presence.'

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

"You could always make me laugh but you didn't."

Expired, expired, expired, expired, expired, expired.

Thoughts of Stephen Harper...

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

Tomorrow's another day, he thought, unless I get lucky and sleep right through it.

'What's all this 'naughty or nice' jazz? ? Haven't you ever heard of situational ethics?'

'Buddy, I'll get stinking rich... yesterday, I took out an insurance against pneumonia!'

No crawling sign in the desert.

"See, Timmy? No boogeymen under your bed — they're all out there."

Caution - Poet at work

"Ask not for whom the refrigerator hums..."

"By the way, some of us have begun to feel that 'Because it's there' is not reason enough."

"I didn't spend seventeen days climbing this bloody mountain, in all weathers, for a lecture on personal hygiene!"

"First, I set the mood."

"I dreamed my parents were still alive."