leap and the net will appear, James Burroughs

I can't seem to get enough of Jason Mraz's music lately.  

One of his songs, Make it Mine, has a great line in it:  leap and the net will appear.  It sort of sums up my background thoughts these days.  It's a more refined, "what the hell!"

I thought it was original to Jason, but it turns out to be a famous quote from John Burroughs, a nature essayist who died in 1921.

I decided to look him up.  Here are a few other quotes worth pondering.

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.

A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

Thanks John! And Jason.  

Here's another good one, but it's a little bit... nasty.  In a good way.  :)