I wish to have my immortality now, that it be in the quality of my daily life.

"I wish to transcend my daily routine and that of my townsmen; to have my immortality now; that it be in the quality of my daily life."

Henry David Thoreau

Photo: Englemann Spruce cones, an unnamed lake, and  Brown's Peak just before sunset; Snowy Range, WY; September 20, 2013.  The biological immortality of the tree is in the cones; this year, there are even more on the trees than usual!