Thousands of engineers can design bridges, but the great engineer
is the man who can tell whether the bridge should be built at all.

-Eugene C. Grace

Time (Joshua Tree)

The geometry of landscape and situation
seem to create its own systems of time.

-J. G. Ballard, The Voices of Time

Fortuity (Death Valley)

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God
when He did not want to sign.

-Anatole France, The Garden of Epicurus

Grace (King's Canyon)

Give me a look, give me a face,
That makes simplicity a grace...

-Ben Jonson, The Silent Woman

Welcome (Yosemite)

Come in the evening,
or come in the morning;
Come when you 're looked for,
or come without warning.

-Thomas O. Davis,
The Welcome

Beckon (Yosemite)

I hear a voice you cannot hear,
Which says I must not stay;
I see a hand you cannot see,
Which beckons me away.

-Thomas Tickell,
Colin and Lucy

Roots (Yosemite)

Harmony (Big Sur)

With an eye made quiet by the power
Of Harmony, and the deep power of joy,
We see into the life of things.

-William Wordsworth,
Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey

Duo (Niagara)

Dedicated to the memory of a special friend...

Les Deux Printemps	The Two Springs
Ses yeux sont deux printemps	Her eyes like two springs
Qui me font sourire et ça me fait rire	Make me smile, and make me laugh
Ses joues sont des torrents	Her cheeks like torrents
Les miennes s'y baignent mais encore pire	Mine swimming in hers, but worst
Son coeur est une fête	Her heart like a celebration
Le mien ne veut plus en sortir	Mine doesn't want to get out
Elle est la plus belle saison de ma vie	She's the most beautiful season of my life
La plus belle saison de ma vie	The most beautiful season of my life
-Daniel Bélanger, Quatre saison dans le Désordre	-Marilyn St-Louis, Translation

Farewell, too little, and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own; For sure our souls were near allied, and thine Cast in the same poetic mold with mine. One common note on either lyre did strike, And knaves and fools we both abhorred alike. -John Dryden, To the Memory of Mr. Oldham

Conquest (San Francisco)

I came, I saw, I conquered.
(veni, vidi, vici)
-Julius Caesar, Letter to Amantius, 47 B.C.