Walt Whitman

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

I do not understand how anyone can live

without one small place of enchantment

to turn to.

Wayne Dyer

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible

intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful

fashion is also flowing through you.

Anne Scott-James

There is more pleasure in making a garden than in contemplating a paradise.

Thomas Moore

And oh if there be an Elysium on earth. It is this, it is this.

Emily Dickinson

Some keep the Sabbath going to Church,

I keep it staying at Home -

With a bobolink for a Chorister,

And an Orchard, for a Dome.

Christian Wiman

Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over

an epiphany.

Anne Scott-James

There is more pleasure in making a garden than in contemplating

a paradise.

Gautam Nadkarni

Winter evening -

a beggar's corpse

is carted away

Mike Garofalo

All the cabbages in our garden are robust and green to the core;
All the peppers are dead and black, not red anymore.
The onions are thriving, the tomatoes all gone,
The lettuce is rising, the pecans all stored;
It's wet now in Red Bluff, Winter's knocking at the door.

Lou Holtz

Ability is what you're capable of doing.

Motivation determines what you do.

Attitude determines how well you do it.

Bob Marley

You ain't gonna miss your water until your well runs dry.

A.S. Kline

Awareness is the enemy of completeness, the mind is anxious

Rabindranath Tagore

Life, like a child, laughs, shaking

its rattle of death as it runs.

Sara Stein

It's the flock, the grove, that matters. Our responsibility is to species,

not to specimens; to communities, not to individuals.

Don Van Vliet

MENTAL HEALTH: The largest flying land mammal is the absent mind.

Lao Tzu

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are.

When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world

belongs to you.

Wordsworth

God for his sevice needeth not proud work of human skill;

They please him best who labour most in peace to do his will.

Anna Holley

Answering the door

no one there

the swirling snow

James M. Barrie

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from

themselves.

Pablo Neruda

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

Clint Eastwood

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline.

When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

Maya Angelou

Love arrives

and in its train come ecstasies

old memories of pleasure

ancient histories of pain.

Yet if we are bold

love strikes away the chains of fear

from our souls.

Jerry Garcia

Constantly choosing the lesser of the two evils is still choosing evil

Norman Rockwell

I had a couple million dollars' worth of...stock once. And now it's not

worth much more than wallpaper. I guess I just wasn't born to be rich.

Ambrose Bierce

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the

ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his

failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

Willie Nelson

Nintey nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their

first choise.That's what makes the jukebox play.

Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens)

I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter,

but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.

Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet)

DRUGS: It's not worth getting into the bullshit to see what

the bull ate.

Zhuangzi

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge,

but do not realize how dependant they are on what lies

beyond it.

Issa (Kobayashi Yataro)

in first snow

digesting his rice cake

the crow.

Edith Sitwell

Poetry is the deification of reality.

Julie Hill Alger

LESSON l

.

At least I've learned this much

Life doesn't have to be

All poetry and roses Life

can be bus rides, gritty sidewalks,

electric bills, dishwashing,

chapped lips, dull stubby pencils,

with erasers chewed off,

cheap radios played too loud,

the rank smell of stale coffee,

yet still glow

with the inner fire of an opal,

still taste like honey.

Anonymous

Whoever has not learned to let Nature have her way

is not fit for a gardener, or, for that matter, for a contented soul

Hippocrates

Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food.

Shunryu Suzuki

Without accepting the fact that everything changes,

we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately,

although it is true, it is difficult to accept it. Because

we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

Dalai Lama

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes an incredibe

stroke of luck.

Buddha

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

Baruch Spinoza

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

It is true that the eyes dominate the ears in our time.

Socrates

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy;

if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher

Confucius

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which

is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by

experience, which is the bitterest.

Lao Tzu

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,

while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Denis Waitley

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best

ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it.

That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

Joan Baez

Action is the antidote to despair.

Micheal McClure

Despite fascination

Do not be concerned

that form is emptiness

and emptiness is form,

IT

IS

ALL

a brown

falling leaf

no different from

anything

else.

Nelson Henderson

"The true meaning of life is to plant trees,

under whose shade you do not expect to sit."

Otani Kubutsu

Gazing at falling petals

a baby almost

looks like a Buddha

Thomas Merton

Before we can become who we really are, we must become conscious

of the fact that the person who we think we are, here and now, is at

best an imposter and a stranger.

Alfred Adler

War is not the continuation of politics with different means,

it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community

of man.