“We are the music-makers,/And we are the dreamers of dreams. . . ” ~Arthur O’Shaughnessy
Winter Greenery
“What we call the beginning is often the end/And to make an end is to make a beginning./The end is where we start from.” ~T.S. Eliot
Tuileries Garden, Paris
“It is in a dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value.” ~Alain de Botton
Autumn Sky, St. Louis
“Does the sky stop? It doesn’t stop, it just stops being one thing and starts being another.” ~Maggie Smith
Orchid Show, St. Louis
“In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.” ~Novalis
Boston Public Garden
“The mind that is not baffled is not employed.” ~Wendell Berry
Autumn Leaves
“No one warns you about the amount of mourning in growth.” ~Te V. Smith
Japanese Garden at Missouri Botanical Garden
“We have forgotten what rocks and plants still know – we have forgotten how to be – to be still – to be ourselves – to be where life is here and now.” ~Eckhart Tolle
Wooded Path, Missouri Botanical Garden
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ~C.S. Lewis
Forest Park
“Here is the world, and you live in it, and are grateful. You try to be grateful.” ~Michael Cunningham