Posts tagged ‘chicago botanic gardens’
What Happens Here, Happens There
Pick a flower and you move a farthest star.
– Paul Dirac
Wednesday of Hope – Dance Anyway
No despair of ours can alter the reality of things, or stain the joy of the cosmic dance which is always there. Indeed we are in the midst of it, and it is in the midst of us, for it beats in our very blood, whether we want it to or not. Yet the fact remains that we are invited to forget ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the winds, and join in the general dance.
– Thomas Merton
Enjoying the Spring
It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
Easter 2019
The world is ending, says the caterpillar! No, it is just beginning, says the butterfly.
– Unknown
Wednesday of Hope – No Mud, No Lotus
It takes mud for the lotus to become itself, and the greater the mud in your life, the greater the lotus blossom.
– Jakusho Kwong, No Beginning, No End
The Color of Life
What makes things memorable is that they are meaningful, significant, colorful.
– Joshua Foer
Plant Trees
Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books.
– A. Whitney Brown, Wall at bookstore – Chicago Botanic Gardens
