“And consider, always, every day, the determination of the grass to grow despite the unending obstacles.”
– Mary Oliver
Tag Archives: Quotes
Piers
“Piers are good places for pondering the eternal enigmas of the universe.”
– Howard Rodman
Standing under the sky
“When life feels too big to handle, go outside. Everything looks smaller when you’re standing under the sky.”
– L. R. Knost
One tulip
“One tulip is like the next tulip, but not altogether. More or less like people – a general outline, then the stunning individual strokes.”
– Mary Oliver
Nature’s first green
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold,
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
– Robert Frost
These are new leaves (and flowers) of a boxelder tree.
The gift of springtime
View more →“A single crocus blossom ought to be enough to convince our heart that springtime, no matter how predictable, is somehow a gift, gratuitous, gratis, a grace.”
– David Steindl-Rast
Nothing stronger than a winter tree
“There is nothing stronger than a winter tree,
No wind blows against it,
It is fierce beyond love.
There is nothing stronger than a winter tree,
and nowhere more secure.”
From Mary Oliver’s The Winter Wood Arrives.
Pine cone secrets
“The pine cone has secrets it will never tell.”
– Mary Oliver
Thought for today
View more →“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
– Amy Bloom
Happiness is a butterfly
View more →“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.”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne