"Read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem." ~Walt Whitman ...
Words to Live by
Shelter From the Storm
Rainy evenings are the perfect time to curl up in front of the woodstove with a glass of wine and a cat. This is how we hunkered down for the epic storm that did not come two weeks ago, and this is often the reward at the end of a wet weekend day working around the homestead. In between October downpours, we planted garlic and mulched it in, and weeded and mulched half of the garden with leaves. ...
Knowing Beans
"I was determined to know beans." ~Henry David Thoreau ...
Keep Your Face to the Sunshine
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. It's what the sunflowers do.” ~Helen Keller ...
A Flower’s Roots
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. D. H. Lawrence Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/flower_3.html "The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure." ~D.H. Lawrence The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. D. H. Lawrence Read more at: ...
Spring in the Woods
"One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have the leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in." ~Henry David Thoreau ...
First Daffodils
Daffodowndilly "She wore her yellow sun-bonnet, She wore her greenest gown; She turned to the south wind And curtsied up and down. She turned to the sunlight And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbour: "Winter is dead." ~A.A. Milne ...
A New Year
“And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been, full of work that has never been done, full of tasks, claims, and demands; and let us see that we learn to take it without letting fall too much of what it has to bestow upon those who demand of it necessary, serious, and great things.” ~Rainer Maria Rilke ...
Live Each Season
"Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each." ~Henry David Thoreau ...
Thoreau’s Autumnal Sun
"I am the autumnal sun, With autumn gales my race is run; When will the hazel put forth its flowers, Or the grape ripen under my bowers? When will the harvest or the hunter's moon Turn my midnight into mid-noon? I am all sere and yellow, And to my core mellow. The mast is dropping within my woods, The winter is lurking within my moods, And the rustling of the ...