“Spring, when the earth
tilts closer to the sun,
runs a strict timetable
of flowers.”
~ Alice Oswald
First Day of Spring
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Music is Language
“Music is God’s gift to man,
the only art of Heaven
given to Earth, the only art of
Earth we take to Heaven.”
~ Walter Savage Landor
The Lips of a Rose Petal
“Loveliest of lovely things are they
on earth that soonest pass away.
The rose that lives its little hour
is prized beyond the sculptured flower.”
~ William Cullen Bryant
Keep Heaven in View
“If there’s a heaven upon the earth,
a fellow knows it when He’s been
away from home a week, and
then gets back again.”
~ Will Carleton
Autumn’s Best of Cheer
“Delicious Autumn!
My very soul is wedded to it,
and I were a bird I would fly about
the Earth seeking the successive autumns.”
~ George Eliot
Every Living Thing Suffers
“God had one son on earth
without sin, but never one
without suffering.”
~ Saint Augustine
Go Out For Coffee
“Coffee connects us in so many ways,
to each other, to our senses, and
to the earth that supports the coffee trees.”
~ Rohan Marley
Shades of Gray
“Rocks and waters, etc., are
words of God, and so are men.
We all flow from one fountain Soul.
All are expressions of one Love.”
~ John Muir
The Search for Purity
“Purity and simplicity
are the two wings with which
man soars above the earth
and all temporary nature.”
~ Thomas A. Kempis
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