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October 2017

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    "In the company of flowers
     we know happiness."

            John Stewart Collis


September 2017





"In these vernal seasons of the year,
when the air is calm and pleasant,
it were an injury and sullenness
against Nature not to go out,
and see her riches, and partake in
her rejoicing with heaven and earth."

                    John Milton

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August 2017

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  "To see a world in a grain of sand
   And heaven in a wildflower,
   Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
   And eternity in an hour.

                      William Blake


July 2017




"Rivers know this:
      There is no hurry.
      We shall get there some day."

                A. A. Milne

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June 2017

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"If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say, books, friends and nature... Nature we have always with us, an inexhaustible storehouse of that which moves the heart, appeals to the mind and fires the imagination - health to the body, a stimulus to the intellect, and joy to the soul."

                John Burroughs


May 2017





"Hard is the herte that
 loveth nought in May."

           Chaucer

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April 2017

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 "There is no excellent beauty that
   hath not some strangeness in the
   proportion."


                 Francis Bacon


March 2017




"Look deep into Nature,
and then you will understand everything better."

    Albert Einstein

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February 2017

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"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper."

    W. B. Yeats



January 2017



"Heaven is under our feet
 As well as over our heads."

    Henry David Thoreau

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2016

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"It is good to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought."

    James Douglas

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