Bluebird in Flight

Bluebird in Flight
Originally uploaded by paynehollow

Spring is rising on the wing at the community farm. The birds are singing, the trees are greening, the ground awakening and all of heaven is bursting loose. Hallelujah!

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.

~John Muir

Pond Stream Overflowing

Pond Stream Overflowing
Originally uploaded by paynehollow

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.

~John Muir

Deer

Deer
Originally uploaded by paynehollow

Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cut-leaved Toothwort

Cut-leaved Toothwort
Originally uploaded by paynehollow

To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
An eternity in an hour.

~William Blake

Glistening Grass

Glistening Grass
Originally uploaded by paynehollow

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

~Rachel Carson

King Amos, Queen Lydia

King Amos, Queen Lydia
Originally uploaded by paynehollow

The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration.

~Claude Monet

Racoon Track

Racoon Track
Originally uploaded by paynehollow

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is
to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone
with the heavens, nature and God.

Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and
that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple
beauty of nature. I firmly believe that nature brings solace
in all troubles.

~Anne Frank

Forsythia Ladybug

Forsythia Ladybug
Originally uploaded by paynehollow

I will be the gladdest thing under the sun. I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.

~Edna St. Vincent Millay

Wild Onion

Wild Onion
Originally uploaded by paynehollow

My profession is to always find God in nature.

~Henry David Thoreau