“Then followed that beautiful season… Summer…. Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing” ~ Charles E. Schaefer
“The butterfly is a flying flower, The flower a tethered butterfly.” ~ Ponce Denis Ecouchard Lebrun
“There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. […]
“How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower!” ~ Isaac Watts
“In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike.” ~ Paulo Coelho
“I’m enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this.” ~ Claude Monet
“Flowers rewrite soil, water, and sunshine into petal’d poetry.” ~ Terri Guillemets,