"And do not change. Do not divert your love from visible things. But go on loving what is good, simple and ordinary; animals and things and flowers, and keep the balance true."
-Rilke
Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
To be a leaf
"Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself."
-Henry David Thoreau
-Henry David Thoreau
Monday, August 29, 2005
Still amongst a symphony of insects
"Life is all about timing . . . the unreachable becomes reachable, the unavailable become available, the unattainable . . . attainable. Have the patience, wait it out . . .
It's all about timing."
-Stacey Charter
It's all about timing."
-Stacey Charter
Sunday, August 28, 2005
Shady spot on the pond
"I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. "
-John Burroughs
-John Burroughs
Saturday, August 27, 2005
Perspective
"In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true."
-Buddha
-Buddha
Friday, August 26, 2005
Thursday, August 25, 2005
Exhilaration
"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike."
-John Muir
-John Muir
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
Infinity in a drop
"I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes."
- e.e. Cummings
- e.e. Cummings
Tuesday, August 23, 2005
Monday, August 22, 2005
Good Morning!
This was taken outside of my apartment building around 6:30 AM. I hope everyone has a great Monday!
Sunday, August 21, 2005
Blue
"Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart."
-Kay Knudsen
-Kay Knudsen
Saturday, August 20, 2005
Friday, August 19, 2005
Weeping Willow
"Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind."
-Bruce Lee
-Bruce Lee
Thursday, August 18, 2005
Silent Prayer
"Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you."
-James Dillet Freeman
-James Dillet Freeman
Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Wet Petals of Lace
"Some things are very dear to me --
Such things as flowers bathed by rain
Or patterns traced upon the sea...
But dearer far than all surmise
Are sudden tear-drops in your eyes."
-Gwendolyn Bennett
Such things as flowers bathed by rain
Or patterns traced upon the sea...
But dearer far than all surmise
Are sudden tear-drops in your eyes."
-Gwendolyn Bennett
Monday, August 15, 2005
Sunday, August 14, 2005
Go with the flow
"As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit."
-Emmanuel Teney
-Emmanuel Teney
Saturday, August 13, 2005
Ripening
"We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friday, August 12, 2005
Thank heaven it's Friday!
"There will be a rain dance Friday night, weather permitting."
-George Carlin
-George Carlin
Thursday, August 11, 2005
The very pink of perfection
"Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers."
-May Sarton
-May Sarton
Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Tuesday, August 09, 2005
Shadow on a Green Leaf
"Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Monday, August 08, 2005
Meditation
"If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world."
-Sri Chinmoy
-Sri Chinmoy
Sunday, August 07, 2005
Saturday, August 06, 2005
Guided by Nature
"Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence."
~Alfred Billings Street
~Alfred Billings Street
Friday, August 05, 2005
Baby, you're tops
Phil at the top of Mt. Eisenhower (elevation 4,760')
"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."
-Edmund Hillary
"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."
-Edmund Hillary
Thursday, August 04, 2005
One with the Air
"The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man."
- Author Unknown
- Author Unknown
Wednesday, August 03, 2005
Nature Speaks
"There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story."
-Linda Hogan
-Linda Hogan
Tuesday, August 02, 2005
Monday, August 01, 2005
Nature's Peace
"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves."
-John Muir
-John Muir
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