This Valentine’s day at Southbank Centre’s Imagine Festival in London, England, Valentine Peace Project’s Big Flower Giveaway will offer attendees fragrant Fairtrade roses from Zimbabawe ~ donated by Holland’s Global Flower Trading ~ along with poems of peace and love written by children of the world.
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Myth is not falsehood. It’s the language of the heart and mind together, and it surpasses our ordinary way of expressing ourselves. Nature often speaks to us in mythic language. ~ Jacob Needleman
[Image: Paniolo Country, Maui.]
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When a Facebook friend sent me an electronic bouquet of sunflowers, their cheerful yellow faces ~ even though virtual ~ brought a ray of sunshine into an otherwise dreary day. Thank you, Annette!
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Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art. ~ Seneca
[Image: Shop window at dusk, Rome, Italy.]
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The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. ~ Thomas Carlyle
[Image: Natural Bridges State Park, Santa Cruz, California.]
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It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly. ~ Claude Monet
[Image: Artist's rendition of lotus pond, Denver Botanic Gardens.]
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As the days begin to grow shorter following the Fall Equinox in North America, migrating monarch butterflies set out on their long journey ~ as far as 2,000 miles ~ to escape the cold of Winter. They are the only butterflies to regularly migrate both north and south as birds do.
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I am the woman offering two flowers – whose roots are twin – Justice and Hope. ~ Alice Walker
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I first noticed this striking yet subtly attractive shrub on Maui’s southeast shore, on the verdant grounds of Palapala Ho’omau Church in Kipahulu, where famed aviator, Charles Lindbergh, who spent his final years near Hana, lies modestly at rest.
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The life we have on earth must have spontaneously generated itself. It must, therefore, be possible for life to be generated spontaneously elsewhere in the universe. ~ Stephen Hawking
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