Day 158 – Simplest Fern
When Nature gives a gorgeous rose, Or yields the simplest fern, She writes this motto on the leaves, “To whom it may concern!” And so it is the poet comes And revels in her bowers, […]
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When Nature gives a gorgeous rose, Or yields the simplest fern, She writes this motto on the leaves, “To whom it may concern!” And so it is the poet comes And revels in her bowers, […]
“The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.” ~ Henry Miller
“Once upon a time there was a frog called Mr. Jeremy Fisher; he lived in a little damp house amongst the buttercups at the edge of a pond.” The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher by […]
“A small speckled visitor Wearing a crimson cape Brighter than a cherry Smaller than a grape A polka-dotted someone Walking on my wall A black-hooded lady In a scarlet shawl.” ~ Joan Walsh Anglund
“Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o’er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?” ~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon
“A tulip doesn’t strive to impress anyone. It doesn’t struggle to be different than a rose. It doesn’t have to. It is different. And there’s room in the garden for every flower.” ~ Marianne Williamson
“The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime. All the wild seeds of weed and thistle, the sprouts of vine and bush and tree, are trying to take the fields. […]
“There’s something in the very small minutia of life that tells us something about the big, big picture that we see every day all over the place, and so I think the more specific and […]
“A daffodil pushing up through the dark earth to the spring, knowing somehow deep in its roots that spring and light and sunshine will come, has more courage and more knowledge of the value of […]