In a Grain of Sand
To see the world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wildflower,
Is to hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.
-- William Blake
I am longing for the meadows of the world.
City-surrounded, I would seek and find
Some flower-strewn, wind-swept meadow there to walk
And rest my tired heart, my troubled mind.

There would be laughter again for my sober lips,
And my eyes again would know the relief of tears.
Meadows were made for healing, for release...
I would walk them through and find their gift of peace.
-- Grace Noll Crowell
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
There will come soft rain and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
And frogs in the pools singing at night,
And wild plum trees in tremulous white;
Robins will wear their feathery fire,
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire.
-- Sara Teasdale
Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of the pine trees.
Their sermons go straight to our hearts.  
-- John Muir
I was angry with my friend, I told my wrath, my wrath did end;
I was angry with my foe, I told it not, my wrath did grow.
--  William Blake
Anyone who has never made a mistake, has never tried very
hard to make anything.  
-- Albert Einstein
To be able to select appropriately among old ideas is almost as
handy as being able to invent new ones.  
-- Nicholas Trublet
Be who you are and say what you feel,
those who mind, don't matter,
and those who matter, don't mind.
-- Dr. Seus
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Unless someone like you cares a whole lot,
Nothing is going to get better.  It's not.
-- Dr. Seus
When the world says, "Give up,"
Hope whispers, "One more time."
--  Author Unknown