“Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which...

“Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week...

“There is no beauty without some strangeness” ~ Edgar Allan Poe

“Here feel we but the penalty of Adam,The seasons’ difference, as the icy fangAnd churlish chiding of the winter’s wind,Which,...

“I never get tired of the blue sky.” ~ Vincent Van Gogh

“We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life...

“As I stood and watched the mists slowly rising this morning I wondered what view was more beautiful than this.”...

“Come, ye cold winds, at January’s call, On whistling wings, and with white flakes bestrew The earth.” ~ John Ruskin

“May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.” ~...

“I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.” ~ Bill Watterson