February Dreams

Every gardener knows that under the cloak of winter lies a miracle... a seed waiting to sprout, a bulb opening to the light, a bud straining to unfurl. And the anticipation nurtures our dream. ~Barbara Winkler

February is merely as long as is needed to

pass the time until March. ~Dr. J.R. Stockton

Wings of the Night

Strange things blow in through my window

on the wings of the night wind and I don't

worry about my destiny. ~Carl Sandburg 

Our words have wings, but fly not 

where we would. ~George Eliot

Bright Flight

His talent was as natural as the pattern that

was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings.

At one time he understood it no more than

the butterfly did and he did not know when it

was brushed or marred. ~Ernest Hemingway

How blessings brighten as they take

their flight. ~Edward Young

Upward

The heights by great men reached and kept

were not attained by sudden flight, but they,

while their companions slept, were toiling

upward in the night. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There are only two lasting bequests we can

hope to give our children. .One of these is

roots, the other, wings. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Flight From Wonder

The process of scientific discovery is in effect,

a continual flight from wonder. ~Albert Einstein

And even the sun in dawn chorus sings, 

a celestial melody to the earth below. ~Tjaden

Wings of Time

The simplicity of winter has a deep moral.

The return of Nature, after such a career of

splendor and prodigality, to habits so simple

and austere, is not lost either upon the head or heart. It is the philosopher coming back

from the banquet and the wine to a cup of 

water and a crust of bread. ~John Burroughs

Sadness flies away on the wings of time. ~Jean de La Fontaine

November Light

In the garden, Autumn is, indeed the crowning 

glory of the year, bringing us the fruition of 

months of thought and care and toil. 

And at no season, safe perhaps in Daffodil time, 

do we get such superb colour effects as from

August to November." ~Rose G. Kingsley

I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. 

So I spend almost all the daylight hours 

in the open air. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne