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– Chief Seattle
Tag Archives: Quotes
Fringed tulip
“A tulip doesn’t strive to impress anyone. It doesn’t struggle to be different than a rose. It doesn’t have to. It is different.”
– Marianne Williamson
My thought is a snowdrop
Wilmer “Wil” Bloy 1928-2026
View more →I will lift up my eyes to the hills — from whence does my help come?
My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
He will not let your foot be moved — he who keeps you will not slumber.
Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
The Lord is your keeper — the Lord is your shade on your right hand.
The sun shall not smite you by day, nor the moon by night.
The Lord will keep you from all evil — he will keep your life.
The Lord will keep your going out, and your coming in, from this time forth and forevermore.
– Psalm 121, A song of ascents
Determination
“And consider, always, every day, the determination of the grass to grow despite the unending obstacles.”
– Mary Oliver
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