Posted on May 18, 2025
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It’s not like you have to empty your mind and then you can listen to the flowers. If you try to listen to the voice of flowers, you naturally start emptying your mind. For me, ikebana is a practice of the mind.
Posted on May 4, 2025
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In the scenery of spring, nothing is better, nothing worse. The flowering branches are; some long, some short.
Posted on April 2, 2021
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“[Writing of his wife Katharine, who was planning the planting of bulbs in her garden even though she knew she likely would not live to see the spring.] There was something comical yet touching in her bedraggled appearance…. The small hunched-over figure, her studied… Continue Reading “Plotting Resurrection”
Category: Holy WeekTags: a time to live, e b white., garden, good friday, hope, nature, onion, online retreats, photo, photography, quote, resurrection, robert raines, santa sabina center retreat, spring
Posted on May 6, 2020
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You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep spring from coming. – Pablo Neruda
Category: Hope / HealingTags: flowers, hope, lilacia park, lombard, nature, pablo neruda, photo, photography, quote, spring, tulips
Posted on May 19, 2019
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It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart. -Rainer Maria Rilke
Posted on December 10, 2017
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The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. – Eden Phillpotts
Posted on August 14, 2016
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. – Henry David Thoreau
Category: Care of the EarthTags: bunny, chicago, chicago botanic gardens, flowers, garden, henry david thoreau, nature, pansies, photo, photography, quote, rabbit, spring
Posted on May 22, 2014
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A kind word is like a spring day. • Russian Proverb
Posted on May 5, 2013
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The one who neglects to drink of the spring of experience is apt to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance. – Ling Po
Category: BeautyTags: Beauty, flowers, garden, ling po, nature, photo, photography, quote, san rafael, spring, wisteria
Posted on April 19, 2013
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Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation. – Barbara Kingslover, High Tide in Tucson
Category: Hope / HealingTags: barbara kingsolver, Beauty, flowers, high tide in tucson, hope, jonquils, nature, photo, photography, quote, spring
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