Ta'bai's Shadow

"And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees,
books in the running brooks, sermons in stones,
and good in everything."
- William Shakespeare

Light Purple Flower

"All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower
wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind."
- Abraham Lincoln

Funky Tree Trunk

"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."
- Albert Einstein

Lincoln Academy

"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of the government in the next."
- Abraham Lincoln

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."
- Albert Einstein

Old Snow Plow

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
- C. S. Lewis

Spiky Flowers

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
- Anais Nin

Farm Ferns

"Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises."
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Atlantic Ocean Filled Harbor

"Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher."
- William Wordsworth

Mountain View

"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."
- John Ruskin

"There are always flowers for those who want to see them."
- Henri Matisse

"Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong."
- Winston Churchill

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

"Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher."
- William Wordsworth

Moss Mounds

"The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit."
- Moliere

Mountain Streams

"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature."
- Socrates

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow."
- Helen Keller

Shelf Mushrooms

"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."
- Albert Camus

Lighted Spider Web

"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.
We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon
instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today."
- Dale Carnegie

Mossy Tree Trunks

"All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower would grow in thought and mind."
- Abraham Lincoln

"And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
sermons in stones, and good in everything."
- William Shakespeare

Fallen Birch Tree

"I thank you God for this 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

Moss Painting the Mountainside

"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."
- Albert Einstein

Summit

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

Textured Spring Trees

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
- Anais Nin

Leaves and Moss

"Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises."
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca

American Legion Flags

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
- John F. Kennedy

High School Marching Band

"We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense."
- Barack Obama

Old Horse and Buggy

"I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose."
- John F. Kennedy

Old Farm Tractor

"Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest while knowing what he is hollering about."
- Mark Twain

Patriotic Firetruck

"People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race, political or geographic.
A state that is sincerely civil and respectful of each individual's pathway
toward life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be our goal."
- Jon Huntsman, Jr.

White and Yellow Flowers

"Anti-social behaviour still blights lives,
wrecks communities and provides a pathway to criminality."
- Theresa May

Pink and Blue Sunset

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky."
- Rabindranath Tagore

"When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon,
my soul expands in the worship of the creator."
- Mahatma Gandhi

"Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal."
- Elbert Hubbard

Farm Plow

"Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway."
- Maurice Strong

Overgrown Garage

"The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak,
became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong."
- Thomas Carlyle

On the Forest Floor

"The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak,
became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong."
- Thomas Carlyle

Leafy Tree

"The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a
stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong."
- Thomas Carlyle

Roadside Swamp

"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable."
- Joseph Addison

Stairway Rail

"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again . To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."
- Henry David Thoreau

Shriveled Flowers

"She drew back; he was calm
'It is this that had the power,'
And he lashed his open palm
With the tender-headed lower."
- Robert Frost

Cat Umbrella

"A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long."
- E. E. Cummings

Old Bricks

Mushrooms On a Tree Trunk

"All religions, arts, and sciences are branches of the same tree."
- Albert Einstein

Cup Mushrooms

"Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted."
- Emily Dickinson

Petals on the Road

"Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!"
- Bob Marley

Fir Tree Needles

"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow.
The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."
- Abraham Lincoln

Tree Trunks

"Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all
living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty."
- Albert Einstein

Swamp

"Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'
Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand."
- Kurt Bonnegut

"I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it."
- William Shakespeare

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson