“If you look closely at a tree you’ll notice it’s knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we...

“Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week...

“There is no beauty without some strangeness” ~ Edgar Allan Poe

“He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in...

“Snowdrops: Theirs is a fragile but hardy celebration… in the very teeth of winter.” ~ Louise Wilder

“I watched the land for as long as I could, until it disappeared behind its shawl of mist, and until...

“We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life...

“As I stood and watched the mists slowly rising this morning I wondered what view was more beautiful than this.”...

“Come, ye cold winds, at January’s call, On whistling wings, and with white flakes bestrew The earth.” ~ John Ruskin...

“May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.” ~...