Adam and I both love books...in fact we have already filled three bookshelves in the Anchorage apartment and will need more. I imagine we will have one of those amazing libraries eventually, with that old book smell and a leather chair with soft throw over it, you know, with low lighting that is especially perfect for snowy days. Anyways, my dad sent these quotes about books....which deserve a larger audience.
Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. ~P.J. O'Rourke
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. ~Groucho Marx
A dirty book is rarely dusty. ~Author Unknown
Lord! when you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book. ~Christopher Morley
The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television. ~Andrew Ross
There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back. ~Jim Fiebig
There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book? ~Marina Tsvetaeva
A house without books is like a room without windows. ~Heinrich Mann
Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes. ~John LeCarre
Never judge a book by its movie. ~J.W. Eagan
You may have tangible wealth untold; Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be -
I had a mother who read to me. ~Strickland Gillilan (Thanks, Laurel)
He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot. ~Arabic Proverb
O for a Booke and a shdie nooke, eyther in-a-doore or out; With the grene leaves whisp'ring overhede, or the Streete cryes all about. Where I maie Reade all at my ease, both of the Newe and Olde; For a jollie goode Booke whereon to looke is better to me than Golde.~John Wilson
'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude, 1870
The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practised at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness. ~Holbrook Jackson
Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them. ~Arnold Lobel
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love. ~Christopher Morley
These are two of the totems from the park. Cruise ships often bring their people here as a day trip place. One of the historical places is the Cheif's former house. The architectural style was called "balloon" which means that the frame goes from ceiling to floor. Recently, the City of Saxman nominated (and earned for it) the title of most endangered building in SE Alaska. As you can see, because of the frame set-up, the whole building is leaning right on over and will soon fall. Outside the house is this strange modern art kind of totem pole--with eagles on branches. It sits next to a 1700s Russian cannon.
