Each day brings new possibilities for seeing beauty, which is all around us, in every part of the natural world

Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is the sign of a savage nature
~ Isaac Friedmann

The weather is quite delicious. Yesterday, after writing to you, I strolled a little beyond the glade for an hour and a half and enjoyed myself--the fresh yet dark green of the grand Scotch firs, the brown of the catkins of the old birches, with their white stems, and a fringe of distant green from the larches, made an excessively pretty view. At last I fell asleep on the grass, and awoke with a chorus of birds singing around me, and squirrels running up the trees, and some woodpeckers laughing, and it was as pleasant and rural a scene as I ever saw, and I did not care one penny how any of the beasts or birds had been formed
~ Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin's Letters

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are
~ Joseph Campbell

As we climbed, sunbeams pierced the brume to pick out pools of water in bowls of polished rock and carpets of glistening, emerald ferns. Big trees lay over the narrow ravine, their backs covered in moss. As we rambled higher still, blue sky tinted the fog and, suddenly, we were in warm sun on the golden flanks of Mount Tamalpais
~ Gregory Dicum ... Near the Golden Gate

Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all
~ Stanley Horowitz

There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved
~ Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

Our ability to go deeply into silence brings us many benefits. It is when the soul is in dead silence that it is able to go beyond its accumulated sanskars (patterns) and karma and see its original nature clearly. I may have been making overall spiritual effort for a long period of time, but this effort alone would only take me so far. It is when I make the effort to experience dead silence, that I am able to capture the awareness of myself in my original form, the form to which I am returning once again. When I am in this stage, the catching power of the soul is immense and the inner experience is very powerful
~ BK Janki

It's obvious that humans are unlike all animals. It's also obvious that we're a species of big mammal down to the minutest details of our anatomy and our molecules. That contradiction is the most fascinating feature of the human species
~ Jared Diamond

Health is beauty, and the most perfect health is the most perfect beauty
~ William Shenstone (1714 -1763)

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
~ John Muir

Humanity; the most intelligent species on the planet, capable of anything, but is governed by its aggression and youth. A species fast in developing, but slow in maturing.
Once a species that cared about its home, its provider, let its ego dominate its decisions. A period of ignorance and neglect has had profound effects across the world. Effects which can be reversed, if nature is give the time to repair the damage.
Remember...
We only have one home
~ David Bayliss

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The word Think comes from Old English þoht, or geþoht, from stem of þencan 'to conceive of in the mind, consider'
~ Wikipedia

When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross
~ Sinclair Lewis

When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a reality, and not a fancy - that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them
~ Mark Twain

... economy was always 'elegant,' and money-spending always 'vulgar and ostentatious'; a sort of sour-grapeism, which made us very peaceful and satisfied
~ Elizabeth Gaskell - from Cranford (1851)

History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments
~ James Madison

Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal
~ Charles Darwin

Little one
Behold the setting sun
Feel her warm rays
On your cheeks

Allow the sun's radiance
To fill you with light
And warmth
Hope
Love of who you are
Love of other beings

~ Tim

Many passions and interests especially art and that which is creative. Being on YT has been a wonderful experience for me, meeting and making special and dear friends, listening to music I have never heard and have grown to love. I love to be in nature and to photograph, to become one with it.