The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
As quoted in The Little Book of Snowflakes, by Kenneth Libbrecht 2004 Voyageur Press
Friday, January 14, 2011
Henry David Thoreau
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
As quoted in The Little Book of Snowflakes, by Kenneth Libbrecht 2004 Voyageur Press
As quoted in The Little Book of Snowflakes, by Kenneth Libbrecht 2004 Voyageur Press
Heinrich Heine
Like a great poet, nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.
As quoted in The Little Book of Snowflakes, by Kenneth Libbrecht 2004 Voyageur Press
As quoted in The Little Book of Snowflakes, by Kenneth Libbrecht 2004 Voyageur Press
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Rachel Carson
Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.
As quoted in The Little Book of Snowflakes, by Kenneth Libbrecht 2004 Voyageur Press
As quoted in The Little Book of Snowflakes, by Kenneth Libbrecht 2004 Voyageur Press
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Oscar Wilde
Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.
As quoted in The Little Book of Snowflakes, by Kenneth Libbrecht 2004 Voyageur Press
As quoted in The Little Book of Snowflakes, by Kenneth Libbrecht 2004 Voyageur Press
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.
As quoted in The Little Book of Snowflakes, by Kenneth Libbrecht 2004 Voyageur Press
As quoted in The Little Book of Snowflakes, by Kenneth Libbrecht 2004 Voyageur Press
Monday, January 10, 2011
Albert Einstein
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
As quoted in The Little Book of Snowflakes, by Kenneth Libbrecht 2004 Voyageur Press
As quoted in The Little Book of Snowflakes, by Kenneth Libbrecht 2004 Voyageur Press
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work.
As quoted in The Little Book of Snowflakes, by Kenneth Libbrecht 2004 Voyageur Press
As quoted in The Little Book of Snowflakes, by Kenneth Libbrecht 2004 Voyageur Press
Saturday, January 8, 2011
John Muir
This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere: the dew is never all dried at once: a shower is forever falling: vapor ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and continents and islands. Each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.
As quoted in The Little Book of Snowflakes, by Kenneth Libbrecht 2004 Voyageur Press
As quoted in The Little Book of Snowflakes, by Kenneth Libbrecht 2004 Voyageur Press
Friday, January 7, 2011
Henry David Thoreau
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
As quoted in The Little Book of Snowflakes, by Kenneth Libbrecht 2004 Voyageur Press
As quoted in The Little Book of Snowflakes, by Kenneth Libbrecht 2004 Voyageur Press
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Jane Austen
One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.
As quoted in The Little Book of Snowflakes, by Kenneth Libbrecht 2004 Voyageur Press
As quoted in The Little Book of Snowflakes, by Kenneth Libbrecht 2004 Voyageur Press
Aristotle
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
As quoted in The Little Book of Snowflakes, by Kenneth Libbrecht 2004 Voyageur Press
As quoted in The Little Book of Snowflakes, by Kenneth Libbrecht 2004 Voyageur Press
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
William Blake
To see a world in a grain of sand,
and a heaven in a wild flower.
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
and eternity in an hour.
As quoted in The Little Book of Snowflakes, by Kenneth Libbrecht 2004 Voyageur Press
and a heaven in a wild flower.
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
and eternity in an hour.
As quoted in The Little Book of Snowflakes, by Kenneth Libbrecht 2004 Voyageur Press
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Yogi Berra
You can observe a lot just by watching.
As quoted in The Little Book of Snowflakes, by Kenneth Libbrecht 2004 Voyageur Press
As quoted in The Little Book of Snowflakes, by Kenneth Libbrecht 2004 Voyageur Press
Monday, January 3, 2011
Lord Byron
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
there is a rapture on the lonely shore.
There is a society where none intrudes,
by the deep sea and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but nature more.
As quoted in The Little Book of Snowflakes, by Kenneth Libbrecht 2004 Voyageur Press
there is a rapture on the lonely shore.
There is a society where none intrudes,
by the deep sea and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but nature more.
As quoted in The Little Book of Snowflakes, by Kenneth Libbrecht 2004 Voyageur Press
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Albert Einstein
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
As quoted in The Little Book of Snowflakes, by Kenneth Libbrecht 2004 Voyageur Press
As quoted in The Little Book of Snowflakes, by Kenneth Libbrecht 2004 Voyageur Press
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Rachel Carson
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.
As quoted in The Little Book of Snowflakes, by Kenneth Libbrecht 2004 Voyageur Press
As quoted in The Little Book of Snowflakes, by Kenneth Libbrecht 2004 Voyageur Press
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