Ageing Quote by William Boyd

Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.

— Thomas Jefferson

. . . the time has also come to identify and preserve free-flowing stretches of our great rivers before growth and development make the…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.

— Francisco de Quevedo

For aging is an art. The years between its first intimations and the time of the ultimate letting go of all earthly things can-if…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

We are very lucky to be living in an age in which we are still making discoveries. It is like the discovery of America-you…

— Richard P. Feynman

Trees and children are, of all living things, those whose growth soonest makes one feel one's age.

— Mary Russell Mitford

“I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism. And to alter now, cleanly and…

— Virginia Woolf

Ageing is inevitable, and the idea that we can be eternally youthful is the pitfall of our society.

— Jennifer Grey

If you're imaginatively responsible to the place you live in, you understand the watershed.

— Robert Hass

the real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance ... Days are no longer jagged peaks to climb; time is…

— Gladys Taber

“Cartography. A watershed is an area of land, usually mountains or forests, that drains into a river. History is also a river. Wouldn’t you…

— Stephen King

“I think people who don't know the woods very well sometimes imagine it as a kind of undifferentiated mass of greenery, an endless continuation…

— Bill McKibben