“Come with me into the woods where spring is advancing, as it does, no matter what, not being singular or particular, but one of the forever gifts, and certainly visible.”
-Mary Oliver
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to bloom.”
-Anais Nin
“It is spring again.
The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart”
-Rainer Maria Rilke
Forest Mood
“Every spring is the only spring – a perpetual astonishment.”
-Ellis Peters
“Walking,
I am listening
to a deeper way.
Suddenly
all my ancestors
are behind me.
Be still, they say,
Watch and listen.
You are the result of the love of thousands.”
-Linda Hogan
“The woods are lovely,
dark and deep,
but I have promises to keep,
and miles to go before I sleep,
and miles to go before I sleep.”
-Robert Frost
Werifesteria – Old English – Verb
-to wander longingly through the forest in search of mystery
“When there’s snow on the ground
I like to pretend I’m walking on clouds.”
-Takayuki Ikkaku
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or
usher in storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
-Rabindranath Tagore
“You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.”
-Henry David Thoreau
“In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.”
—John Muir.
“Kindness is like snow –
It beautifies everything it covers.”
-Kahlil Gibran
“Winter’s icy grip
Encapsulating free form
Frozen memories.”
-Kata Boro
“february ice
hangs from the bare tree branches –
walks in still nature.”
-Viv Wigley
“The earth is what we all have in common.”
-Wendell Berry
Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen – that stillness becomes a radiance.
~ Morgan Freeman
“When sleeping women wake, mountains move.”
-Chinese Proverb
“Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.”
-Alice Walker
