Proboscidea

"Never do anything by halves

if you want to get away with it.

Be outrageous.

Go the whole hog.

Make sure everything you do is

so completely crazy it's unbelievable..."

-Matilda, Roald Dahl

Elephant Pattern

"When you have got an elephant by the hind legs
and he's trying to run away,
it's best to let him run."

-Abraham Lincoln 

Custom Vans

"I named my dog 'Five Miles'

so I can tell everyone I walk Five Miles

every day."

-Anonymous

Heart Is Where The Home Is

Mama cut out pictures of houses for years
From 'Better Homes And Gardens' magazines.
Plans were drawn, concrete poured,
And nail by nail and board by board
Daddy gave life to Mama's dream.

-Miranda Lambert
"The House That Built Me"

Broccoli

"I do not like broccoli.
…And I'm President of the United States,
and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli."
-George H. W. Bush

Imperfection

“We look for medicine to be an orderly field
of knowledge and procedure. But it is not.
It is an imperfect science,
an enterprise of constantly changing knowledge,
uncertain information, fallible individuals,
and at the same time lives on the line.
There is science in what we do,
yes, but also habit, intuition,
and sometimes plain old guessing.
The gap between what we know and what we aim for persists.
And this gap complicates everything we do.” 
― Atul Gawande,
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on An Imperfect Science

Sailing

"Flying might not be all plain sailing,
but the fun of it is worth the price."
-Amelia Earhart

I Spy

"What we do see depends mainly on what we look for.
… In the same field the farmer will notice the crop,
the geologists the fossils,
botanists the flowers, artists the coloring,
sportsmen cover for the game.
Though we may all look at the same things,
it does not all follow that we should see them."

-John Lubbock,
The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live in 

Feather

"All those who see me
and all who believe in me,
share in the freedom
I feel when I fly."

-John Denver 

Protozoans

"Somewhere,
something incredible
is waiting to be
known."

-Carl Sagan 

Eclipse

Three things cannot be long hidden:
the sun, the moon, and the truth.

Buddha 

Marbles

"My greatest achievement?
I was the neighborhood marbles
champion in the third grade."

-Frank X. Sutton 

Tree Frog

 "It it's your job to eat a frog,
it's best to do it first thing in the morning.
And if it's your job to eat two frogs,
it's best to eat the biggest one first."

-Mark Twain

Cramps

"Women on their period
always ovary act."

-Anonymous

Toucan

The Toucan by Shel Silverstein

Tell me who can
Catch a toucan?
Lou can.

Just how few
Can ride the toucan?
Two can.

What kind of goo can
Stick you to the toucan?
Glue can.

Who can write some
More about the toucan?
You can!

Skull

"To succeed in life you need three things-
a wishbone,
a backbone
and a funny bone."

-Reba McEntire

Bubble Fish

"If you judge a fish on its ability to climb,
that fish is going to live its whole life
thinking it is stupid."

-Albert Einstein 

The Monster Mash

"Man as an individual is genius.
But men in the mass form the headless monster,
a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded."

-Charlie Chaplin

Balloons

Who knows if the moon's
A balloon coming out of a keen city
In the sky - filled with pretty people?

-E.E. Cummings 

Bird Village

Keep a green tree in your heart,
and perhaps a singing bird will come.

Chinese proverb