“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

 

MORNING

 

"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

 

AFTERNOON

 

"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