“The world shall perish not for lack of wonders, but for lack of wonder” - J.B.S. Haldane
“Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.” - E.B. White
“A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work
will die without putting a word to paper.” - E.B. White
"Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere
and whose circumference is nowhere" - Blaise Pascal
“I spent the summer traveling; I got halfway across my back yard.” - Unknown
“Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.” - John Muir
“When we tug at a single thing in nature,
we find it attached to the rest of the world.” - John Muir
"If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere." - Vincent Van Gogh
"The blank page is a door to endless imagination." - Unknown
"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have." - Maya Angelou
"Begin anywhere." - John Cage
“He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.” - Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which,
if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you” - Unknown
“If you want to attract butterflies, don’t chase them.
Build a garden that welcomes them — and even if no butterfly comes,
you’ll still have a beautiful garden.” - folk saying
“Handle a book as a bee does a flower,
extract its sweetness but do not damage it.”- John Muir
"First thing every morning before you arise say out loud,
I believe, three times." - Norman Vincent Peale
"The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed
I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have." - Robert Frost
"I have a great deal of company in my house;
especially in the morning, when nobody calls." -Henry David Thoreau
"I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning.
Every day I find something creative to do with my life." -Miles Davis
"When you rise in the morning, form a resolution
to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature." - Sydney Smith
"Summer afternoon -- summer afternoon; to me those have always been
the two most beautiful words in the English language." -Henry James
"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky." - Rabindranath Tagore
"The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected." - Swedish proverb
"The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life
what you learned this afternoon." - Unknown
NIGHT
"Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close;
Something attempted, something done,
has earned a night's repose." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking." - Chinese Proverb
"Growl all day and you'll feel dog tired all night." - Unknown
"I often think that the night is more alive
and more richly colored than the day." - Vincent Van Gogh
"There is a budding tomorrow in midnight." - John Keats
"One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night." - Kahlil Gibran