It is difficult to realize how great a part of all that is cheerful and delightful in the recollections of our own life is associated with trees. – Wilson Flagg
The place is all awave with trees, Limes, myrtles, purple-beaded, Acacias having drunk the lees Of the night-dew, fain headed, And wan, grey olive-woods, which seem The fittest foliage for a dream. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Exhalation of moss, mycelium, black mould; wafted savor of a thousand earthly growths, damp, clinging, redolent; aroma of mighty roots, of invisible spawn and seed—all the vast stirring of the earth’s desire. – Virginia Garland, “The Rain,” Out West: A Magazine of the Old Pacifi
Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other — it doesnt matter who it is — and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other. – Mother Theresa
You know, be able to do something great in your life, youre gonna have to realize your failures. Youre gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it. – Dave Chappelle
