Bethany

“When it's over, I don't want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.

I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.”
― Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

“There is no place like a tree for comfort, safety and good living. I'm sorry for anyone who can't live in a tree.”
― Thornton W. Burgess, At the Smiling Pool

“Everything speaks of the autumn now. The sea roars hollowly day and night, the fields are bare and sere, bordered by strips of deep-dyed golden-rod, asters, and life-everlasting; and the ponds are blue – blue – not the steely blue of winter or the deep azure of summer, but a clear, steadfast serene blue, as if the water were past all the moods and tenses of passion and had settled down to tranquility.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Complete Journals of L.M. Montgomery: The PEI Years, 1889-1900

“The last of our summer visitants has taken his departure. About a fortnight ago a Chiff-chaff was constantly to be seen hopping about the Goose-berry bushes in the garden: - the last to leave us, he is usually the first to arrive.”
― Edith Holden, The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady