"If you do not see what is around you every day, what will you see when you go to Tangiers?"
~Freeman Patterson
Art of Flowers
"A flower's appeal is in its contradictions...so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long on effect." ~Adabella Radici
Nature Impressions
"There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are not patient enough, quiet enough to pay attention to the story." ~Linda Hogan
Water Lilies and Lotus
"But it chanced the other day that I scented a white water lily...it is the emblem of purity." ~Henry David Thoreau
Hummingbirds
"The hummingbird is a symbol for accomplishing that which seems impossible." ~ Ted Andrews, Animal-Speak
Shoji Impressions
Wildlife
"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous." ~Aristotle
Butterflies and Dragonflies
"Magic is seeing the wonder in nature's every little thing." ~ Ama Vanniarachchy
Shorebirds of Florida
"To stand at the edge of the sea...to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of years...is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be." ~Rachel Carson
Iris Impressions
"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment." ~Georgia O'Keeffe
Dalla Cucina: From The Kitchen
"Fervet olla, vivit amicitia: While the pot boils, friendship endures. ~Latin Proverb
Marine Life
"The ocean is a mighty harmonist." ~ William Wordsworth
Art of Nature
"It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera. They are made with the eye, heart & head." ~Henri Cartier-Bresson
Art of Leaves
"And the leaves were telling secrets to the wind." ~Peter Mulvey
North Carolina
"How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!" ~John Muir
New York State
"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves". ~John Muir
Charleston
"It was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea..." ~Edgar Allan Poe
Great Smoky Mountains
"The mountains are calling and I must go." ~John Muir
Florida
"Aah, Florida. Her soul can yet be found by those with wonder in their hearts." ~John Moran
Florida Everglades
"There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth; remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them. " ~Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Places of Worship
"I like the silence of a church, before the service begins." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Transportation
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
Potpourri
pot·pour·ri (n) - any mixture, esp. of unrelated objects, subjects.