Nature Quotations and Photographs

"Tis the last rose of summer,
Left blooming alone;
All her lovely companions
Are faded and gone."
~Thomas Moore (1779-1852)

Copyright by Linda Pendleton

"Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet,
with charm of earliest birds."
~John Milton (1608-1674)

"Oh! the snow, the beautiful snow,
Filling the sky and the earth below!
Over the housetops, over the street,
Over the heads of the people you meet:
Dancing,
Flirting,
Skimming along,
Beautiful snow! it can do nothing wrong."
~John Wittaker Watson (1824-1890

Copyright by Eric Stephens

“The clearest way into the universe
is through a forest wilderness.”
~John Muir (1838-1914)

Copyright by Linda Pendleton

“We are the stars and planets, the wind and the rain,
the sands and the seas, we, the miracles of creation,
are everything that has ever been.”
~Don Pendleton and Linda Pendleton,
Whispers From the Soul: The Divine Dance of Consciousness

Nature

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes." ~e.e. cummings

"To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon the verdant green hills is the most perfect refreshment." ~ Jane Austin


"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." ~ Lao Tzu


"I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?"
~Robert Redford

"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks."
~John Muir

"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."
~Albert Einstein

"We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts."
~William Hazlitt

Photographs © Copyright 2010 by Ted Grussing.
Photos taken in Village of Oak Creek, Sedona, AZ

~Linda

Flowers of Springtime

“Come the spring with all its splendor,
All its birds and all its blossoms,
All its flowers, and leaves, and grasses.”
–Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)

“Each flower is a soul opening out to nature.”
–Gėrard de Nerval (1808–1855)

“Nature is an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God
speaks to us every hour, if only we will tune in.”
–George Washington Carver (1864–1903)

“I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut
they will give up their secrets...”
–George Washington Carver (1804–1903)

“Look about, O what do I see?
O Spring, smiling at me–
Wake up, O pretty flower,
Spring has come, now is the hour!”
–Linda Pendleton

Photographs Copyright © 2010 by Linda Pendleton

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