Day 188 – Possess the sweet
“The honey-bee’s great ambition is to be rich, to lay up great stores, to possess the sweet of every flower that blooms. She is more than provident. Enough will not satisfy her, she must have […]
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“The honey-bee’s great ambition is to be rich, to lay up great stores, to possess the sweet of every flower that blooms. She is more than provident. Enough will not satisfy her, she must have […]
“The point of life is to find the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality.” ~ Lillian Smith
“Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient […]
“Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
“I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home. I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as they are, grand and beautiful.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
“There is not one pink flower, or even fifty pink flowers, but hundreds.” ~ Julia Cameron This beautiful bush is called a Diosma Hirsuta and sits outside the backdoor of my Mother’s house. When you […]
“Purple and green the clematis Leans down my lady’s mouth to kiss. Purple and green: we mourn a king With purple for deep sorrowing. Is Love then dead, that long has been A king enthroned […]
“the most magnificent Structure in Oxford” ~ Thomas Salmon The Radcliffe Camera (Camera, meaning “room” in Latin; colloquially, “Rad Cam” or “The Camera”) is a building of Oxford University, England, designed by James Gibbs in […]
“I saw the spires of Oxford As I was passing by, The gray spires of Oxford Against a pearl-gray sky.” ~ Winifred Mary Letts These are the beautiful ancient spires of Magdalen college, Oxford
“Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered!” ~ William Shakespeare This is the Melissani Lake in the Melissani Caves near Sami on the island of Kefalonia, Greece. In Greek mythology, Melissani was the […]