Category Archives: Visual Soliloquy

Learn to…Be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. ~Henri Frederic Amiel

Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so. – Belva Davis

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The difference between try and triumph is a little umph. ~Author Unknown

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. – Robert Louis Stevenson

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. -Epicurus

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. – Albert Einstein

Be not simply good; be good for something. – Henry David Thoreau

Character is defined by the actions you do and the decisions you make when no one is watching. -J.C. Watts

Happiness flutters in the air whilst we rest among the breaths of nature. ~Kelly Scheaffer

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. ~Rachel Carson

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. ~Frank Lloyd Wright

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. ~William Shakespeare

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. ~Helen Keller

As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens. ~Stephen Graham

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Lao Tzu

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. ~John Muir

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. ~Walt Whitman

After all, I don’t see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. ~Charles A. Lindbergh

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. ~Kahlil Gibran

The poetry of the earth is never dead. ~John Keats

I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. ~Henry David Thoreau

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! ~John Muir

Our heart away from nature becomes hard. ~Standing Bear

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn! ~Logan Pearsall Smith

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think. ~Robert Henri

Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go. ~Blaise Pascal

Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither. ~William Wordsworth

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It’s always our self we find in the sea. ~e.e. cummings

Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. ~Loren Eiseley

I believe that water is the only drink for a wise person. ~Henry David Thoreau

Never a ship sails out of the bay But carries my heart as a stowaway. ~Roselle Mercier Montgomery