I'm building a list of memorable quotes.  It's not that I spend a whole lot of time looking for them.  It's just that on occasion, one sticks in my mind.  Like most people I imagine, there is something about the moment that is meaningful.  I'm terrible at remembering them when called upon.  Anyway, here some are: 

• on the top of Mount Everest is marine sandstone (John McPhee)
• to work a routine, in a subserviant situation, is death
• there is grandeur in this view of life (Charles Darwin)
• i am haunted by rivers (Norman McLean)
• to be confronted by solitude without a single material thing or decadence to protistute it is to be confronted by the face of God  (Piers Paul Reid)
• one of the penalities of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds  (Aldo Leopold)
• the anguish of language
• history is contingent  (Stephen J. Gould)
• man is but a worm  (Punch's 1882 almanac)
• it was an apple that fell on Newton's head, not a pop bottle from a passing airplane  (Dan Janzen)
• true that a plant my not think, but neither will the profoundest of men ever put forth a flower (Donald Culross Peattie)