Nature and Elements

I love best to have each thing in its season, doing without it at all other times.

Butterflies count not months but moments, and yet have time enough.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Cheerfulness, like spring, opens all the blossoms of the inward man.

Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend. When we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that’s present; love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure; the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth. Sarah Breathnach

This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related.

By harming a horse, you decrease his excellence. Thus, by harming a person, you decrease their excellence.

But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?

Love is a good poet and accomplished in all the fine arts; for no one can give to another that which he has not himself, or teach that of which he has no knowledge. Who will deny that the creation of the animals is his doing? Are they not all the works of his wisdom, born and begotten of him? And as to the artists, do we not know that he only of them whom love inspires has the light of fame?

As wolves love lambs so lovers love their loves.

Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.

Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.

Gardening is not a rational act.

One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.

Earth laughs in flowers.

Earth laughs in flowers.

The Amen! of Nature is always a flower.

The Amen! of Nature is always a flower.

The flower has no weekday self, dressed as it always is in Sunday clothes.

The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the softly-falling dew, but shut up in the violent downpour of rain.

Dogs live with man as courtiers round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice and enriched with sinecures. To push their favor in this world of pickings and caresses is, perhaps, the business of their lives.