camellias
Is it so small a thing
To have enjoy’d the sun,
To have lived light in the spring,
To have loved, to have thought, to have done;
~ Matthew Arnold
ocean’s kiss
there’s nothing more beautiful than the way
the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline,
no matter how many times it’s sent away.
~ Sarah Kay
mama and newborn poppy
Woman, how divine your mission
Here upon our natal sod!
Keep, oh, keep the young heart open
Always to the breath of God!
All true trophies of the ages
Are from mother-love impearled;
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world.
~ William Ross Wallace
pluviophile
pluviophile (noun)
1. a lover of rain;
someone who finds joy and peace of mind during rainy days.
(especially when feeling warm and dry while the rain makes music on my roof)
woodland melody
Flowers are the music of the ground
From earth’s lips spoken without sound.
~ Edwin Curran
Esperanza, BC
i thank You God for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes
~ e.e. cummings
rainforest path
Of all the paths you take in life,
make sure a few of them are dirt.
~ John Muir
tranquil tulip
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil
are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
~ Henry David Thoreau
blossom branch
Spring shows what God can do
with a drab and dirty world.
~ Virgil Kraft
mystery of spring
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and science.
He to whom the emotion is a stranger,
who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapped in awe,
is as good as dead —his eyes are closed.
~ Albert Einstein
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