Lush Green Trees

For in the true nature of things,
if we rightly consider,
every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
~Martin Luther

My Grosbeak friend

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
and never stops at all.
-
Emily Dickenson

Untamed Shoreline

Let us permit nature to have her way.
She understands her business better than we do. ~Michel de Montaigne

The squirrel I feed in my yard

Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer.

~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966