Why Go Gold Panning? ... Despite the metal detectors, sluice boxes, and other large equipment often associated with this activity, the equipment actually needed to successfully pan for gold is limited, affordable and light weight...
A lost inch of gold may be reclaimed, but never a lost inch of time.
—Chinese proverb.
There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it or not, it is there, haunting his daydreams when the burden of debt is most unbearable.
—Fawn M. Brodie (1915–1981)
Not the gold that fastens your sandal,
nor the gold reft
through your chiselled locks
is as gold as this last year’s leaf.
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)