"The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses."

~~Hanna Rion~~

"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."

~~William Shakespear~~

"At last came the golden month of the wild folk - honey-sweet May, when the birds come back, and the flowers come out, and the air is full of the sunrise scents and songs of the dawning year."

~~Samuel Scoville Jr.~~

"Flowers are the music of the ground from earth's lips spoken without sound."

~~Edwin Curran~~

"Everything that slows us down and forces patience,

everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help.

Gardening is an instrument of grace."

~~May Sarton~~

"May is the most beautiful month of the year, a month alive with warm color. The flowers and trees are in full bloom, and even the sun joins this rhapsody by emitting warmer rays."

~~Lillian Berliner~~

"With the coming of Spring, I am calm again."

~~Gustav Mahler~~

"Winter's done, and April's in the skies.

Earth, look up with laughter in your eyes!"

~~Charles G.D. Roberts~~

"The beautiful spring came, and when nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also."

~~Harriet Ann Jacobs~~

"Mindfulness is a pause - the space between stimulus

and response: That's where the choice lies."

~~Tara Brach~~

"It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart."

~~Rainer Maria Rilke~~

"Where is the book in which the teacher can read about what teaching is? The children themselves are this book. We should not learn to teach out of any book other than the one lying open before us and consisting of the children themselves."

~~Rudolf Steiner~~

"All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature."

~~Rudolf Steiner~~

New Beginnings

Each bud, a new beginning,

In spring's tale, ever-spinning,

nature's way, always winning,

in life's eternal inning.

"While it is February, one can taste the full joys of anticipation.Spring stands at the gate with her finger on the latch."

~~Patience Strong~~

In December, Miss Tamara gifted each of us a Paperwhite Narcissus. They were just bulbs then, tucked into a mason jar with pebbles, hugs, and a bit of water. This is how mine looks now; It reminds me of hope - and how that single miracle can spring up and out from nothing, turning itself into something quite beautiful in the middle of winter.

"One kind word can warm three winter months."

~~Japanese proverb~~