Everything is made out of Magic,
leaves and trees, flowers and birds,
badgers and foxes and squirrels and people.
So it must be all around us. In this garden–in all the places.
~Frances Hodgson Burnett, (1849 – 1924)
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The very winds whispered
The very winds whispered in soothing accents,
and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.
~Mary Shelley, (1797 – 1851)
with an eye made quiet
. . . with an eye made quiet by the power
Of harmony, and the deep power of joy,
We see into the life of things.
~William Wordsworth, (1770 – 1850)
the gate
He who wants to do good knocks at the gate;
he who loves finds the gate open.
~Rabindranath Tagore, (1861 – 1941)
like pearls slipping off a string
I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid
or wonderful or exciting happens. But just those that bring simple little pleasures,
following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.
~L. M. Montgomery, (1874 – 1942)
every place is the center of the world
Do not despise your own place and hour.
Every place is under the stars,
every place is the center of the world.
~John Burroughs, (1837 – 1921)
turn again to the earth
It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us
to turn again to the earth
and in the contemplation of her beauties
to know the sense of wonder and humility.
~Rachel Carson, (1907 – 1964)
A loving heart
A loving heart
is the truest wisdom.
~Charles Dickens, (1812 – 1870)
folded
There is something in me
maybe someday to be written;
now it is folded, and folded,
and folded,
like a note in school.
~Sharon Olds
unplug
It’s more for me as with going into a forest:
if you sit quietly for a long time,
the life around you emerges.
As the world grows ever more clamorous,
my hunger for silence steepens.
I unplug the landline.
~Jane Hirshfield
