Blossoming Around Town

"How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude." ~ Emily Dickinson, 1880

"I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne of the human tree." ~ James Douglas

"To be overcome with the fragrance of flowers is a delectable defeat." ~ Beverly Nichols

"Nature is the art of God." ~ Thomas Browne, 1635

"Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing, but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch." ~ Yoshida Kenko

  

"Drinking nature is an unquenchable thirst."

~ Berri Clove

"Nature never goes out of style." ~ Author Unknown

"Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration."

~ D. H. Lawrence

"How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Happiness flutters in the air whilst we rest among the breaths of nature." ~ Kelly Scheaffer

"Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into." ~ Henry Beecher

"Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life."

~ Rachel Carson

"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to the body and soul." ~ John Muir

  

"To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment."

~ Jane Austen

"After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood."

~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"Adopt the pace of nature:  her secret is patience."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars."

~ Author Unknown

  

"I will be the gladdest thing under the sun!  I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one."

~ Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Afternoon on a Hill"

"The poetry of the earth is never dead." ~ John Keats

"Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars. . . and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful.  Everything is simply happy.  Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents and they are not going to become rich and they will never have any bank balance.  Look at the flowers - for no reason - it is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are." ~ Osho

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair." ~ Kahlil Gibran

"The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man."

~ Author Unknown

"I thank you God for the most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes." ~ e. e. cummings