Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

~John Muir

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.

~Beverly Nichols

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.

~Chinese Proverb

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

~Saint Augustine

A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.

~William Wordsworth

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

~Robert Ingersoll

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.

~Mother Teresa of Calcutta quotes