Garden Journey

Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger 

in your journey, but strive for the mark 

set before you. ~George Whitefield

Always do your best. What you plant now,

you will harvest later. ~Og Mandino

Dodging Raindrops

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. ~John Updike

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon

your head with silver liquid drops. Let the

rain sing you a lullaby. ~Langston Hughes

Simplicity

One eye sees, the other feels. ~Paul Klee

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. ~Walt Whitman

Observations in the Grass

My fascination with letting images repeat

and repeat - or in film's case 'run on' - 

manifests my belief that we spend much of

our lives seeing without observing. ~Andy Warhol

Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range of our intellectual ray, i.e. we are not looking for it. So, in the largest sense, we find only the world we look for. ~Henry David Thoreau

Nature's Summer Pinstripes

There is nothing I like better at the end of a hot summer's day than taking a short walk around the garden. You can smell the heat coming up from the earth to meet the cooler night air. ~Peter Mayle

One touch of nature makes 

the whole world kin. ~William Shakespeare

Light Revealed

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures. ~James Thurber

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within. ~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Painted Pink

I dream of painting 

and then I paint my dream. ~Vincent Van Gogh

All gardening is landscape painting. ~William Kent

Passion In The Garden

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion. ~George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Better pass boldly into that other world, in

the full glory of some passion, than fade and

wither dismally with age. ~James Joyce

Looking Through The Garden

One lifetime is never enough to accomplish

one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site

for the imagination, how can we be very far

from the beginning? ~Francis Cabot Lowell

I am writing in the garden. To write as one

should of a garden one must write not

outside it or merely somewhere near it, but

in the garden. ~Frances Hodgson Burnett

Flight Across The Shore

We are tied to the ocean. And when we 

go back to the sea, whether it is to sail 

or to watch - we are going back from 

whence we came. ~John F. Kennedy

But let there be spaces in your togetherness

and let the winds of the heavens dance

between you. Love one another but make not

a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea

between the shores of your souls. ~Khalil Gibran

Lazy Days of Summer

Deep summer is when laziness 

finds respectability. ~Sam Keen

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on 

the grass under trees on a summer's day, 

listening to the murmur of the water or

watching the clouds float across the sky, 

is by no means a waste of time. ~John Lubbock

Responsibility of Freedom

Responsibility is the price of freedom. ~Elbert Hubbard

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every

human being. With freedom comes

responsibility. For the person who is

unwilling to grow up, the person who does

not want to carry his own weight, this is a

frightening prospect. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

America Blues

The blues is instilled in every musical cell

that floats around your body. ~Nick Cave

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults. ~Alexis de Tocqueville

Courage, Imagination, & Determination

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. ~Harry S. Truman

Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers. ~Tecumseh

Liberty in Red

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed. ~Charles Caleb Colton

Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.
~Walt Whitman