“to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into spring beauty, or a tiger into lustre.” — D.H. Lawrence * * * Photo credit: Mary O’Connor © 2014
Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters. — St. Bernard * * * Dogwood blossoms. Photo by Mary O’Connor © 2014
“I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.” ― Ann Lamott * * * Pansies, photo by Mary O’Connor © 2013
“had never appeared so fantastically beautiful as it did this spring. I had an uncomfortable suspicion that Nature had come to reconquer the earth for herself.” ― Yukio Mishima * * * Photo credit: Jan Logozzo © 2014
U.S. Poet Laureate Stanley Kunitz said in his 98th year that all he wanted to do was write poems and be in the garden. He wrote of his tendency to brush against the flowers while walking in the seaside garden of his Provincetown home, anticipating the fragrant eloquence of their response. * * * Photo … More “…when you walk past a flower, whether it be in somebody’s garden or on a vacant hillside, the flower will always smile at you. The most polite way to respond, I’ve been told, is to cheerfully return the smile.” — Japanese proverb
The sky was almost blue, the trees were almost budding, the sun was almost bright.” ― Millard Kaufman A long time in coming, but worth the wait! * * * Photo credit: Mary O’Connor © 2014
One is roots. The other is wings. — Hodding Carter, Jr. * * * Photo credit: Mary O’Connor © 2014
“I will brush the blue dust of my dreams.” ― John Gould Fletcher * * * Dust storm on the Serengeti, photo by Mary O’Connor, © 2014
“It reaches deeply. By going into nature and letting go, and reaching that deep spiritual level, quiet is quieting. It is also medically healing in that it’s lowering your blood pressure and taking those stress hormones out of your blood stream. But it’s also in the peace of mind. How often do we use the … More “The quiet place is the think tank of the soul.”
The color green is said to represent nature, serenity, safety, healing, growth, fertility, harmony, relaxation. When it pokes its head through the debris of winter, it is all of those things. * * * Photo credit: Mary O’Connor
