Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It’s only when you grow up, and step back from [your father], or leave him for your own career and your own home—it’s only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. ~ Margaret Truman
Stretch your mind and fly. ~ Whitney M. Young Jr.
No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied – it speaks in silence to the very core of your being ~ Ansel Adams
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
~ Oscar Wilde
Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields. ~ Christopher Marlowe
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. ~ Edward Abbey
I am still learning. ~ Michaelangelo
I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. ~Andrew Wyeth
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! ~John Muir
By unseen hand uplifted in the light Of sunset, yonder solitary cloud Floats, with its white apparel blown abroad, And wafted up to heaven. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
To one who has been long in city pent,
‘Tis very sweet to look into the fair
And open face of heaven, – to breathe a prayer
Full in the smile of the blue firmament.
~John Keats, Sonnet XIV
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter… to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
~John Burroughs
How sweet to be a Cloud Floating in the Blue! A.A. Hodge
