19 posts tagged “flora”
'wish i was ocean size
'One way can be learned by starting to see the magic in everything.
'And notwithstanding the scene is so impressively spiritual, and you seem dissolved in it yet everything about you is beating with warm, terrestrial human love delightfully substantial and familiar.'
- Steve Martin, Shopgirl
- Vladimir Nabokov
'You don't know you're in a ghetto until somebody goes over the wall, I suppose.'
- Theresa Duncan
'This time she came upon a large flower-bed, with a border of daisies and a willow-tree growing in the middle.
"O Tiger-Lily!" said Alice, addressing herself to one that was waving gracefully about in the wind, "I wish you could talk!"
"We can talk!" said the Tiger-Lily, "when there's anybody worth talking to."'
- Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
CAN YOU IMAGINE?
For example, what the trees do
not only in lightning storms
or the watery dark of a summer's night
or under the white nets of winter
but now, and now, and now - whenever
we're not looking. Surely you can't imagine
they don't dance, from the root up, wishing
to travel a little, not cramped so much as wanting
a better view, or more sun, or just as avidly
more shade - surely you can't imagine they just
stand there loving every
minute of it, the birds or the emptiness, the dark rings
of the years slowly and without a sound
thickening, and nothing different unless the wind,
and then only in its own mood, comes
to visit, surely you can't imagine
patience, and happiness, like that.
- Mary Oliver via http://whiskeyriver.blogspot.com/2008/06/can-you-imagine-for-example-what-trees.html
- John Tarrant
Poison and Joy
via WhiskeyRiver: http://whiskeyriver.blogspot.com/2008/05/when-bodhidharma-was-asked-what-is.html
To get you in the May Day mood...
“May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.
May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that’s always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.”
- Irish Blessing