Jubilation

There is something about the outside of a horse

that is good for the inside of a man.

~Winston Churchill

Freedom

A horse is poetry in motion. 

~Author Unknown

summer snow

A weed is but an unloved flower.

~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Open skies

Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

~Standing Bear

Ecology vs Economy

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, 

then names the streets after them. 

~Bill Vaughn

Under pregnant skies

For the man sound in body and serene of mind 

there is no such thing as bad weather; 

every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do

but make it pulse more vigorously. 

~George Gissing, "Winter," The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, 1903

Sweet autumn

For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. 

For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad. 

~Edwin Way Teale

Summertime

This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer
where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight,
like a spy, through the ripening country-side, and,
with feigned sympathy for those who droop with August heat,
puts her cool cloak of bracing air about leaf and flower and human shoulders.
~Sarah Orne Jewett

On friends

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
~Henry David Thoreau

History

We all grow up with the weight of history on us.
Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do
in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies.
~Shirley Abbott

Sans titre

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have,
and one of the best things you can be.
~Douglas Pagels

Spring has sprung

It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is.
And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want,
but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!
~Mark Twain

Wise and beautiful

Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg.
~Yugoslav Proverb

Emily said it right

How strange that Nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
~Emily Dickinson, letter to Mrs. J.S. Cooper, 1880

Dusk

I'm waiting for the night to fall
When everything is bearable
And there in the still
All that you feel is tranquillity
~Depeche Mode, Waiting For The Night

Duality

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe
and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
~Blaise Pascal

Bloooooo!

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tree popcicles

Winter dies into the spring, to be born again in the autumn.
~Marche Blumenberg

Yuletide blessings

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors,
and let each new year find you a better man.
~Benjamin Franklin

A blessing

May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light,
May good luck pursue you each morning and night.
~Irish Blessing