Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. -Sir John Lubbock
Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind. Samuel Taylor Coleridge snow
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special. Stephen Hawking
Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age. Lydia Maria Child
Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values all the utilities of the world. -Ralph Waldo Emerson