QUOTE – LIFE

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

 Beverly Sills

QUOTE – GARDENING & SUCCESS

Everyone wants instant everything, and they want instant success, but I always think you should treat things in the arts like a garden, and let them grow. 

Penelope Keith

QUOTE – LIGHT

WHILE MY RIVER VALLEY HOME HAS FALLEN INTO SHADOW, IN THE DISTANCE, THE CITY OF MELBOURNE IS BATHED IN LIGHT IN THE GOLDEN HOUR

I cannot cause light;
the most I can do
is try to put myself
in the path of its beam.

~ Annie Dillard ~

QUOTE – NATURE

Experiencing,

rather than trying to have special experiences,

is where real freedom lies

Ezra Bayda, At Home in the Muddy Water

QUOTE – NATURE

CRIMSON ROSELLA (race elegans) – half-hidden in the long grass behind my apartment building – seen just this once  on 24th October 2018

The world is full of wonderful things
you haven’t seen yet.
Don’t ever give up on the chance of seeing them.

~ J.K. Rowling ~

QUOTE – NATURE

PIGEONS CAUGHT IN THE LATE AFTERNOON SUN IN THE ‘GOLDEN HOUR’ BEFORE SETTLING DOWN TO ROOST FOR THE NIGHT ON THE LOCAL CHURCH ROOF

The reason birds can fly and we can’t is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.
– J.M. Barrie –

QUOTE – NATURE

Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.

– Ryunosuke Satoro –

QUOTE – The Golden Hour

Once in a golden hour, I cast to earth a seed, and up there grew a flower that others called a weed.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

QUOTE – NATURE

 

The still waters of a lake reflect the beauty around it. When the mind is still the beauty of the self is reflected

– B.K.S Iyengar – 

QUOTE – NATURE

 

Life is like the river, sometimes it sweeps you gently along and sometimes the rapids come out of nowhere.

– Emma Smith –