“And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
“Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
“Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”~ Charles Dickens
“I watched the land for as long as I could, until it disappeared behind its shawl of mist, and until I had it fixed in my mind – unchanged, mysterious and beautiful” ~ Aimee Friedman
“No one can look at a pine tree in winter without knowing that spring will come again in due time.” ~ Frank Bolles
The spirit-world around this world of senseFloats like an atmosphere, and everywhereWafts through these earthly mists and vapours denseA vital breath of more ethereal air.~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.John Burroughs
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 […]