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“ It was not for her to criticize the ways of Almighty God;…. if He liked to go to all that trouble over the snowflakes, millions and millio...

“ Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour, and is not reminded of the flux of all things? Throw a stone into the stream, and the circles...

More from the wise tea bag tags: "In all things of nature,  there is something of the marvelous ."  - Aristotle (384-322 B...

" I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house." - Nathaniel Hawthorne , (1804-1...

  “But in a still life, there is no end to our looking, which has become allied with the gaze of the painter; we look in and in, to t...

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” —  Albert Camus (1913-1960)

“Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.” - Wendell Berry (I'm not sure if these p...

" Choose a mindset of abundance.   There is enough for both of us to win. " - from Book Notes by David Mays , on Stephen M. R...

I was drawn to the shooting-starness of this lovely streambank wildflower, but it turns out it's actually a relative of the potato pl...

"There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky." Dejan Stojanovich ...

"All told, she owned fourteen books, but she saw her story as being made up predominantly of ten of them. Of those ten, six were sto...

" I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the d...

My gardening-genius sister of the far northern city has been collecting aged horse manure after work - trowel scoop by trowel scoop, int...

" Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. Th...

" So fair, so cold; like a morning of pale spring still clinging to winter's chill." - from The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien

It's official: my hiking season is closed until the first summer heat wave. Why, you ask? Particularly since nature daily beckons wi...

Falling in the creek (almost) is not quite like falling in love (for real). But they have their similarities. The good news is I did no...

"It is a spur that one feels at this season more than any other. How nimbly you step forth! The woods roar, the waters shine, and...

" Under the bank, close-shadowed from the sun,   By winter freshets spun,  Dry tangled wreckage hung above the shallows ..." -...

A couple weeks' boon of springlike weather has given way to the truth that winter is not quite done with us yet.  Brrrrrrrr!