Monday Thoughts: “...challenges are the best engines for interesting designs.” ~ Daryl Beyers

 

“...challenges are the best engines for interesting designs.” ~ Daryl Beyers

Monday Thoughts: “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.” ~ Alphonse Karr

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.” 

~ Alphonse Karr

Monday Thoughts: “Summer's lease hath all too short a date...” ~ William Shakespeare

“Summer's lease hath all too short a date...” ~ William Shakespeare

Monday Thoughts: “Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.” ~  Henry David Thoreau

Monday Thoughts: “In this broken world where nature is increasingly being made homeless, and where many wild species’ populations are trending downwards, we all have the power to create our own little nature reserves and watch with delight as nature returns to where it once flourished.” ~ Hadden Turner

“In this broken world where nature is increasingly being made homeless, and where many wild species’ populations are trending downwards, we all have the power to create our own little nature reserves and watch with delight as nature returns to
where it once flourished.” ~ Hadden Turner

Monday Thoughts: “Take time to sit. Put a bench in the garden, and just think. Slow your mind and let the garden speak to you, rather than always trying to manipulate it.” ~ Ellen Ecker Ogden

“Take time to sit. Put a bench in the garden, and just think. Slow your mind and let the garden speak to you, rather than always trying to manipulate it.” ~ Ellen Ecker Ogden

Monday Thoughts: “Gardening is an active participation in the deepest mysteries of the universe.” ~ Thomas Berry

“Gardening is an active participation in the deepest mysteries of the universe.”

 ~ Thomas Berry

Monday Thoughts: “Faced with planetary crisis ... What difference can an individual make in the face of such vast and seemingly insurmountable problems? The answer, as gardeners around the globe are discovering, is to create a little patch of hope in your own backyard.” ~ Isabella Tree

“Faced with planetary crisis ... What difference can an individual make in the face of such vast and seemingly insurmountable problems? The answer, as gardeners around the globe are discovering, is to create a little patch of hope in your own backyard.” ~ Isabella Tree

Monday Thoughts: “Sometimes I forget the garden is me — wild, tender, unruly, and always capable of blooming again.” ~ K.L. Ember

“Sometimes I forget the garden is me — wild, tender, unruly, and always capable of blooming again.”

 ~ K.L. Ember

Monday Thoughts: “I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars, / And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, / And the tree-toad is a chef-d'oeuvre for the highest, / And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven.” ~ Walt Whitman

“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars, / And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, / And the tree-toad is a chef-d'oeuvre for the highest, / And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven.” ~ Walt Whitman

Monday Thoughts: "I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down / into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, / how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, / … / Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and precious life?” ~ Mary Oliver

"I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down / into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, / how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, /  …  / Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and precious life?” ~ Mary Oliver

Monday Thoughts: “Sometimes all it takes is a single blossom.” ~ Jane Fulton Alt

“Sometimes all it takes is a single blossom.” ~ Jane Fulton Alt

Monday Thought: “It was June, and the world smelled like roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold all over the grassy hillside.” ~ Maud Hart Lovelace

“It was June, and the world smelled like roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold all over the grassy hillside.” ~ Maud Hart Lovelace

Monday Thoughts: "The pleasures of spring are available to everybody, and cost nothing." ~ George Orwell

"The pleasures of spring are available to everybody, and cost nothing." ~ George Orwell

Monday Thoughts: "Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring." ~ Lilly Pulitzer

 

 "Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring." ~ Lilly Pulitzer

Monday Thoughts: "I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older." ~ Virginia Woolf

"I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older." 

~ Virginia Woolf

Monday Thoughts: "One must be as willing to study as to dig, for a knowledge of plants is acquired as much from books as from experience." ~ Elizabeth Lawrence

"One must be as willing to study as to dig, for a knowledge of plants is acquired as much from books as from experience." ~ Elizabeth Lawrence

Monday Thoughts: "Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." ~ Lao Tzu

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." 

~ Lao Tzu

Monday Thoughts: "Every child needs to learn how to cook, learn how to cultivate a garden and plant seeds, learn about sustainability, be taken to a garden and be able to put their hands in the earth." ~ Alice Waters

"Every child needs to learn how to cook, learn how to cultivate a garden and plant seeds, learn about sustainability, be taken to a garden and be able to put their hands in the earth." 

~ Alice Waters

Monday Thoughts: "He plants trees to benefit another generation." ~ Caecilius Statius

"He plants trees to benefit another generation." ~ Caecilius Statius