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A Bright Future

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by Viktoria Vidali on April 26, 2013

in Quotations

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. ~ E.B. White

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Following Nature

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by Viktoria Vidali on December 7, 2012

in Quotations

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her … I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. ~ Claude Monet

[Monet waited four years for his water garden at Giverny to bloom before immortalizing it in paintings like Water Lilies: Night Effect.]

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The Amen! Of Nature

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by Viktoria Vidali on November 2, 2012

in Quotations

The Amen! of Nature is always a flower ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Nothing Dies

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by Viktoria Vidali on August 3, 2012

in Poetry,Quotations

There is no such thing as death,
In nature, nothing dies:
From each sad moment of decay
Some forms of life arise.

~ Charles MacKay

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Preaching Of The Trees

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by Viktoria Vidali on May 11, 2012

in Quotations

Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts; and if people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish. ~ John Muir

[Image from Romania, courtesy of Horia Varlan, Flickr.]

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The Stream Of Life

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by Viktoria Vidali on March 16, 2012

in Quotations

The affinity of the human spirit for the earth and its beauties is deeply and logically rooted. As human beings, we are part of the whole stream of life. ~ Rachel Carson

[Image: Waialea Bay, Big Island of Hawaii.]

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To Be Good Is An Art

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by Viktoria Vidali on February 3, 2012

in Quotations

Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art. ~ Seneca

[Image: Shop window at dusk, Rome, Italy.]

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Return

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by Viktoria Vidali on January 15, 2012

in Monthly Post

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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Happiness Revealed

by Viktoria Vidali on December 9, 2011

in Great Things To Share,Videos

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Perennial Joy

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by Viktoria Vidali on December 5, 2011

in General,Monthly Image Post

What is your source of perennial joy? Do you have one? What thought, memory, image, or understanding can you rely on, do you trust to rekindle the wonder and magic for life you once felt as a child?
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