Elizabeth > Elizabeth's Quotes

“It was one of those days you sometimes get latish in the autumn when the sun beams, the birds toot, and there is a bracing tang in the air that sends the blood beetling briskly through the veins.”
― PG Wodehouse Jeeves and the Old School Chum

“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
― A.A. Milne

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”
― Pablo Neruda

“The earth laughs in flowers.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
― Albert Camus

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
― Marcel Proust

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

“In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
― John Muir

“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
― Martin Luther

“And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul”
― John Muir

“The sun shines not on us but in us.”
― John Muir

“Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.”
― John Muir

“There are no forms in nature. Nature is a vast, chaotic collection of shapes. You as an artist create configurations out of chaos. You make a formal statement where there was none to begin with. All art is a combination of an external event and an internal event… I make a photograph to give you the equivalent of what I felt. Equivalent is still the best word.”
― Ansel Adams