Posts tagged ‘botanical gardens’
Wednesday of Hope – Unfailing Love
What gives me hope is that life unfailingly responds to the advances of love.
– Nipun Mehta
The Now
At any moment the fully present mind can shatter time and burst into Now.– David Steindl-Rast, A Listening Heart
The Poet Speaks Again
To live, we must daily break the body and shed the book of creation. When we do it knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, destructively, it is a desecration.
– Wendell Berry, The Gift of Good Land
The art glass of Chihuly graces and is graced by the garden which it shares
Wonder
Wonder before our eyes
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
– E.B. White, from Charlotte’s Web
Be Alert . . . to Find God
Here is some fine advice from Henry David Thoreau:
My profession is always to be alert, to find God in nature, to know God’s lurking places, to attend to all the oratorios and the operas in nature.
God’s lurking place . . . the dramatic coleus
