Trees are sanctuaries ~ Hermann Hesse
Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. ~ Mark Twain
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them. ~Epictetus
So often time it happens, we all live our life in chains, and we never even know we have the key. ~ The Eagles, “Already Gone”
Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
~ Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. ~ John Lennon
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the world is …simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. ~ Henry Miller
As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art. ~ Albrecht Durer
There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
It would be so nice if something made sense for a change. ~ Alice
To me every hour of the light and the dark is a miracle
~ Walt Whitman
Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom ~ Goethe
I heard a bird sing
In the dark of December
A magical thing
And sweet to remember.We are nearer to Spring
Than we were in September- Oliver Herford
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I’ll never see a tree at all.
- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1933
In nature, light creates the color. ~ Hans Hoffman
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
~ Albert Camus
And see the peaceful trees extend
their myriad leaves in leisured dance—
they bear the weight of sky and cloud
upon the fountain of their veins.
- Kathleen Raine, Envoi
