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.