Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration.

Movie directors who have filmed F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' believe it's a big book looming inside a small one, and they aren't altogether wrong.

Before movies, memory unspooled differently in the mind, trailing off in dust-blasted fade-out rather than spliced-together flashback; before photography, memory rippled like a reflection on water's surface, less precise but more profoundly true.

Although I deeply love oceans, deserts and other wild landscapes, it is only mountains that beckon me with that sort of painful magnetic pull to walk deeper and deeper into their beauty. They keep me continuously wanting to know more, feel more, see more.

We have 17 export facilities along the Mississippi river, with 10 million tons daily capacity and 55 million bushels static capacity.