"In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future." ~ Alex Haley

 "The world has different owners at sunrise ... Even your own garden does not belong to you. Rabbits and blackbirds have the lawns; a tortoise-shell cat who never appears in daytime patrols the brick walls, and a golden-tailed pheasant

glints his way through the iris spears."

• Anne Morrow Lindbergh