Friday, April 15, 2016

April in Campbell River

 "Our hearts were drunk with beauty our eyes could never see."                                           (George W. Russell 1867-1935)
    "To some blind souls all cats are much alike. To a cat lover every cat from the beginning of time has been utterly and amazingly unique." (de Vries 1947-1991)
                                        


 "Life's sweetest things are the quietest things....A happy life consists of tranquillity of mind."
                                     (Cicero 106-143 A.D.)


                         Cranesbill.  And the lowly Dandelion. Both good for bees.Don't cut your lawn!

 "Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do become untroubled in its depth of peace like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent." ( Rabindranath Tagore 1861-1941)


                                       Cranesbill. Ready for those bees......Buzzzzzzz.
 "I expand and live in  the warm day like corn and melons. "
                                           (Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882)

        "Our greatest experiences are our quietest moments." 
                                                (Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900)


 "Whatever peace I know rests in the natural world, in feeling myself a part of it, even in a small way." (May Sarton 1912-1995)

 "I do not want change.  I want the same old and loved things, the same trees and soft ashgreen; the turtle-doves, the yellow-hammer singing so long as there is light to cast a shadow, for such is the measure of his song, and I want them in the same place." 
                                                              (R.Jeffries 1848-1887)

 "Those who face that which is actually before them, unburdened by the past, undistracted by the future, these are they who live....these are those who have found the secret of contentment."
                                       (Archbishop Alban Goodier 1869-1939)


 "Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense, the boundless treasures that it hold in store. All that you have within you, all that your heart desires, all that your nature so specially fits you for that waits embedded in the great whole, for you. It will surely come to you. It will surely come to you."    (Edward Carpenter 1844-1929, friend of Walt Whitman and R. Tabore)


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