Passionate Petals

We work in the dark - we do what we can -

we give what we have. Our doubt is our

passion and our passion is our task. The rest

is the madness of art. ~Henry James

It is your passion that empowers you to be able to do that thing you were created to do. ~T.D. Jakes

Moments in Time

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, 

the greater it is. ~Henri Matisse

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process. ~Max Eastman

Art of Consideration

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the 

beauty of flowers - and never succeeding. ~Gian Carlo Menotti

When that shutter clicks, anything else that

can be done afterward is not worth

consideration. ~Edward Steichen

Nature's Music

The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more. ~Mary Shelley

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art. ~Izaak Walton

Golden Hour

The imagination is the golden pathway 

to everywhere. ~Terence McKenna

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in 

the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul. ~Alfred Austin

Look & See

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's

inexorable imperative. ~H.G. Wells

 It's not what you look at that matters, 

it's what you see. ~Henry David Thoreau

Golden Radiance

The ground we walk on, the plants and

creatures, the clouds constantly dissolving

into new formations - each gift of nature

possessing its own radiant energy, bound

together by cosmic harmony. ~Ruth Bernhard

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows. ~Jean Paul

Butterfly Dreams

Moss covered paths between scarlet peonies,

Pale jade mountains fill your rustic windows.

I envy you, drunk with flowers,

Butterflies swirling in your dreams. ~Ch'ien Ch'i

Beautiful and graceful, varied and enchanting, 

small but approachable, butterflies lead you

to the sunny side of life. And everyone

deserves a little sunshine. ~Jeffrey Glassberg

Nature's Color Palette

Every flower is a soul blossoming 

in nature. ~Gerard De Nerval

Light in Nature creates the movement

of colors. ~Robert Delaunay

Catch the Moment

Happiness is a butterfly, which when

pursued, is always just beyond your grasp,

but which, if you will sit down quietly, may

alight upon you. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to

slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the

net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is

gone; life itself is gone. That is where the

writer scores over his fellows: he catches the

changes of his mind on the hop. ~Vita Sackville-West

Thistle Awakening

And the day came when the risk to remain

tight in a bud was more painful than 

the risk it took to blossom. ~Anais Nin

You're only here for a short visit. Don't

hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the

flowers along the way. ~Walter Hagen

Waiting In The Wings

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. ~Jane Austen

To stay ahead, you must have your next 

idea waiting in the wings. ~Rosabeth Moss Kanter