Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
~Thomas W. Higginson

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
~Kahlil Gibran

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

~John Ruskin

They civilize what's pretty
By puttin' up a city
Where nothin' that's
Pretty can grow....
They civilize left
They civilize right
Till nothing is left
Till nothing is right
~Alan Jay Lerner, "The First Thing You Know," Paint Your Wagon, 1969

Solitude shows us what we should be; society shows us what we are.

~Robert Cecil

A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A snowflake is one of God's most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together!

~Author Unknown

Will you love me in December as you do in May,
Will you love me in the good old fashioned way?
When my hair has all turned gray,
Will you kiss me then and say,
That you love me in December as you do in May?
~James J. Walker

The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.

~Chinese Proverb

Take thy plastic spade,
It is thy pencil; take thy seeds, thy plants,
They are thy colours.
~William Mason, The English Garden, 1782

We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven.

~Henry David Thoreau

We do not remember days; we remember moments.

~Cesare Pavese, The Burning Brand

The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.

~Isak Dinesen

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

~Bertrand Russell

The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.

~Felix Adler

When the world says, "Give up,"
Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
~Author Unknown

Earth laughs in flowers.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.

-George Washington Carver

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
-George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man.

-Author Unknown

Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world.

-Murasaki Shikibu

Goodbyes are not forever.
Goodbyes are not the end.
They simply mean I'll miss you
Until we meet again!
~Author Unknown

Beauty... is the shadow of God on the universe.

-Gabriela Mistral, Desolacíon

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
-John Keats

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
-Albert Einstein

Every silver lining has a cloud.

-Mary Kay Ash

To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.
-William Blake

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.

-Ashley Smith

The power of imagination makes us infinite.
-John Muir

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
-Jim Rohn

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
-Walt Whitman

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
-Charles Dickens

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
-Kahlil Gibran

Could find no better way to describe this feeling

……For oft, when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the daffodils.

-By William Wordsworth(1770-1850).