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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity... |
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Ceropegia ampliata - Bushman's pipe |
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Wet kalanchoe harensis leaf |
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Canna Lily Tropicanna |
The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers. ~Basho |
A passionate encounter at The Grange |
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The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway. -Michael Pollan |
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'When I slow my walk, open my eyes and listen, nature reveals her hidden beauty to me.' -Dwayne Oakes |
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Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils. -William Wordsworth |
Hermits have no peer pressure. -Steven Wright |
It's lonely and cold on the top... lonely and cold. -Judy Garland |
The purpose of our lives is to be happy. -Dalai Lama |
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls. -Joseph Campbell |
Dance of the Flowers |
Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them - Voltaire |
Sadness flies away on the wings of time. -Jean de La Fontain |
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats. -Amos Bronson Alcott |
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. -Maria Robinson |
Bring poppies for a weary mind That saddens in a senseless din. -William Winter |
Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze most softly lulling to my soul.-John Keats |
Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower. -Shigenori Kameoka |
At my age flowers scare me. -George Burns |
Money is a powerful aphrodisiac but flowers work almost as well. -Robert Heinlein |
One joy shatters a hundred griefs. -Chinese proverb |
Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. - proverb |
Each flower is a soul blossoming out to nature. -Gerard de Nerval |
The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have. -Erich Fromm |
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery. -Dante Alighieri |
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. -Thomas Carlyle |
The past does not define you, the present does |
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water. - Sister Busche |
The wise cannot be confused; the benevolent will not worry; and the brave have no fear. |
I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature... |
The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers. -Basho |
The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man. -Author Unknown |
In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder. |
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows. -Buddha |
Do all things with love. -Og Mandino |
Sadness flies away on the wings of time. |
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. -Don Marquis |
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star. -Friedrich Nietzsche |
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. |
Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity. -Democritus |
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. |
I praise loudly, I blame softly -Catherine the Great |
Little red bug, oh so cute, Here's a black spot for your suit... -Susan M. Paprocki |
There is no evidence that the tongue is connected to the brain. -Frank Tyger |
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company. -Mark Twain |
Parade-ground drill |
Love is more than a noun -- it is a verb...... |
There are two kinds of light - the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures. -James Thurber |
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. |
Happy greetings from a Bougainvillea |
One does what one is; one becomes what one does. -Robert von Musil, Kleine Prosa |
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. -Walt Whitman |
go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. -Mark Twain- |
Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. -Anonymous |
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Tears are the summer showers to the soul. -Alfred Austin |
For visions come not to polluted eyes. -Mary Howitt |
Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. -Betty Smith |
A day is Eternity's seed, and we are its Gardeners. -Erika Harris |
When the student is ready, the master appears. -Buddhist Proverb |
When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller. -Antonio Porchia |
The lilac spread Odorous essence. -Jean Ingelow, Laurance (pt. III) |
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Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. -Betty Smith |
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. -Joseph Addison |
Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare... |
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Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be outraged by silence.-Henri Frédéric Amiel |
Gleaming daffodils, dancing in the bright sunlight, bringing me such joy . -Haiku by David |
Behold the ego Set in glowing emptiness On the edge of time. -Haiku Noel Kaufmann |
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Flowers whisper "Beauty!" to the world, even as they fade, wilt, fall. -Dr. SunWolf |
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All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful… |
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Banksia spinulosa 'Birthday Candles'. Common Name: Hairpin Banksia |
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“There are many things in life that will catch your eye. But only a few will catch your heart. |
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Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. |
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Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is -Jean Anouilh |
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye. - William Butler Yeats |
Don't count the days, make the days count. -Muhammad Ali |
Empty-handed I entered the world... |
Today is the last day of your life, so far. |
Your Treasure House is in yourself, it contains all you need. -Famous Chinese Proverb |
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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade. -Dr Samuel Johnson |
Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers? -Maurice Maeterlinck |
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Love is putting someone else's needs before ones own. |
Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade. -- Dr Samuel Johnson |
The future has a way of arriving unannounced. -George Will |
Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark... |
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. -Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Life is a progress, and not a station. -Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Purple patch. |
One must never lose time... |
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Deep in their roots, All flowers keep the light. - Theodore Roethke |
“Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain” - |
Bathing beauties. |
For after all, the best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down |
We know what we are, but know not what we may be. -William Shakespeare |
Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal. |
Tears are words the heart can't express. |
Talent and effort are nothing without focus and determination. |
I said to Life, I would hear Death speak. And Life raised her voice a little higher and said, You hear him now. -Kahlil Gibran |
The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals. -Madame De Stael |
The best way to see the future is to create it. |
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Still wrapped up. |
Iris |
Boronia has a wonderful perfume. |
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Happiness does not come from having much, but from being attached to little. -Cheng Yen |
Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think. |
"Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page." --Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them. -Alan Watts |
Blue laying low |
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Lunar magic stirs my FZ30 while sitting on our roof tiles |
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Friendship is a cozy shelter from life's rainy days. |
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Protea |
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It was a very blowy day. |
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Banksia |
Magnolia stellata |
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Big bud. |
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Protea catching a late winter sun |
The Bee |
Spring is not far away. |
Echium in rain |
Protea |
Burst of orange |
One person's weed is another person's wildflower. ~Author Unknown |
Here's your sweet lavender... |
Just living is not enough... One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. - Hans Christian Andersen |
Flowers grow out of dark moments - Corita Kent |
Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour. -Thomas Nash |
In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends. -Kozuko Okakura |
Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun. -Kahlil Gibran |
Whatever a man's age, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his buttonhole. -Mark Twain |
As it Is |
Your whole life will be one perennial good season. |
Hanging garden |
Echium |
MEDLAR, Mespilus germanica |
Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. |
Know that you aren't alone... |
A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in. -Frederick The Great |
Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky. -Jerzy Kosinski |
“The infinite is in the finite of every instant” -Zen Proverb |
As long as it lasts |
The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood. -Buddha |
A summer's sun is worth the having. -French Proverb |
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"Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good." -- Malcolm Gladwell |
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Sunburst |
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Banksia unfolding |
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Leucadendron |
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Rose-like camelia |
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Kunzea |
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Wattle on tree trunk |
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The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity - George Carlin |
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The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it. -Will Foley |
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Grandstanding caterpillar |
Why not learn to enjoy the little things - there are so many of them. -Author Unknown |
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Rain upon the blinding dust of earth... |
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Anywhere is paradise; it's up to you. -Author Unknown |
Just go out there and do what you've got to do -Martina Navratilova |
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Why ? Why, why, why do I do this ??? |
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Nice to see you... |
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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. -Thomas Moore |
I love climbing because it feels so good when I stop... |
Journey over... |
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You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth -Kahlil Gibran |
In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends -Kozuko Okakura |
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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is -Nadine Gordimer |
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How doth the little busy bee |
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Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises -Pedro Calderon de la Barca |
Button flower |
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Yielding to nature |
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There's nothing more dangerous than a wounded mosquito -Monty Python |
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Wattle bird |
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Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift -Albert Einstein |
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I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it? -Henry Moore |
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One fleeting night of disappearing clouds and a total eclipse spectacle |
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Eagle of flowers! I see thee stand... |
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White explosion |
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Chasing shadows -Uriah Heep |
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In my life - As in the twilight - A bell sounds - I enjoy the freshness of evening. -ISSA (1763-1827) |
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. -- Franz Kafka |
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Beauty is simply graceful |
Primula excuberance |
Seed pod of an oleander in our front garden |
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Green and black go well together, don't they? -Tiger Woods |
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Footpath attention seeker |
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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone - St. John of the Cross (Christian mystic and poet, 1542-1591) |
The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration - Claude Monet |
This is truly where a picture is better than a thousand words |
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The only journey is the journey within - Rainer Maria Rilke |
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson |
The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others -Saint John Chrysostom |
Nothing is interesting if you're not interested -Helen MacInness |
Winter luminosity |
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The real voyage of discovery consists of not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.- Marcel Proust |
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The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days - - Archbishop Robert Leighton |
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Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role -Confucius |
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings... |
Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers? -Maurice Maeterlinck |
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Settling in for the night |
Diligence Is Priceless Treasure; Prudence Is Protective Charm. -Chinese Proverb |
Flowers in the Sky by Zen Master Eihei Dogen |
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change -Buddha. |
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Big surf |
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Soaring high to sublimity |
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Moon after it has been treated by Barry |
Full blown majestry |
In this vulnerable, resting, light |
I am a star fallen from the Blue tent upon the green carpet -Khalil Gibran |
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Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun. -- Kahlil Gibran |
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All the good times are past and gone.....weep no more. |
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Plainness manifested |
So gay a flower |
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Blossom time |
What gods are there, what gods have there ever been, that were not from man's imagination? -- Joseph Campbell, |
Superstition gone to seed... |
A maple leaf - touching other leaves - before the ground -- Andre Surridge |
Fuchsia in her Sunday's best |
Eucalyptus flower |
'Tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes! -William Wordsworth |
Alone |
Don't fence me in |
The sun has gone but this rampant bougainvillea still radiates her warmth |
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Well these ones prefer some domestic prepared meals |
“Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication.” - Leonardo Da Vinci |
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I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it... |
Prayer never changes the laws of nature. -- Dan Barker |
Where flowers bloom so does hope - Lady Bird Johnson |
Back of seat |
It was 3 degrees C. and this rascal got me out of bed at midnight such was the tumult |
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Poppy catches a brush and some late winter sun |
Stamen silhouette |
Gorgeous lilly |
The sole equality on earth is death. -- Philip James Bailey |
“Momiji-gari” which literally means hunting Maple or Maple viewing. |
Summer burst of colour |
A nursing rhyme |
Bougainvillea |
Euphorbia stand out |
Pussy willows going sky high |
A delight for the eye and nose |
Reaching for the sky |
Cones |
Grevillea |
Rainbow lorikeet mating pairs stay together for life |
Teatree flower |
Wet King protea |
Plenty for everyone |
Tecoma flower sets the garden on fire |
Going down is more daunting |
Tomato |
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Come with me, where chains will never bind you. All your grief at last, at last behind you. -Fantine in Les Misérables |
Spring in the air |
Oozing warmth on a cool day |
Lilies of the field |
Sunny disposition |
Bringing sky to ground level |
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion. -Francis Bacon |
Pink seat and palm |
Prunus catching a late beam of a sinking sun |
Hakea |
Lovable chatter |
Blue hydreange |
Poppies at dusk. |
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. -- Emily Dickinson |
Magnolia souleanga heralding spring |
One small rose |
Fly on white flower |
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. -Maori Proverb |
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A true spoon bender shot |
Spiky show |
Paulownia tomentosa flowering again in our backyard |
Nasturium creeping through the fence |
My will is easy to decide For there is nothing to divide... |
Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. - Amos Bronson Alcott |
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”- Anais Nin |
The best of times is now. -Oprah Winfrey |
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. - Chinese Proverb |