Sunday, May 19, 2013

Grey Sunset

"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

Twisted Vines

"Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment."
- Robert Collier

Dome Leaves

"Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind.
Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things.
Their language has been lost.
But not the gestures."
- Vera Nazarian

Queen Beads

"A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself."
- Roberto Burle Marx

Purple Vein Flower

"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."
- Walt Whitman

Dewdrops

"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf."
- Rabindranath Tagore

Buttercups

"Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare,
And left the flushed print in a poppy there."
- Francis Thompson

Shed Vines

"When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic."
- Confucius

Apple Tree in Front of the Old Farm House

"Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky."
- Kahlil Gibran

Green Set of Three

"A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows."
- Doug Larson