Day 174 – Eternity
“To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.” ~ William Blake
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“To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.” ~ William Blake
“It always seemed to me that the herbaceous peony is the very epitome of June. Larger than any rose, it has something of the cabbage rose’s voluminous quality; and when it finally drops from the […]
“… last week looking at it through the window when I’m writing, I see it is the whitest, frothiest, blossomest blossom that there ever could be, and I can see it.” ~ Dennis Potter
“I could hear you, talking to the daffodils and tulips, whispering to the fairies that lived inside their petals. Each separate flower had a different family inside it.” ~ Lucy Christopher
“When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around […]
“Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying.” ~ Robert Herrick Despite the Autumn firmly being here I still have Roses […]
“For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.” ~ D. H. Lawrence
“Against her ankles as she trod The lucky buttercups did nod.” ~ Jean Ingelow The one thing I dislike about mowing the lawn is loosing all the buttercup and daisy flowers. I love the way […]
“When daffodils begin to peer, With heigh! the doxy, over the dale, Why, then comes in the sweet o’ the year” ~ William Shakespeare This is a bunch of daffodils that were in that ‘not […]