One summer afternoon in the garden...

"A flower is an educated weed" -- Luther Burbank

"There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story." -- Linda Hogan

"The sun, with all those plants revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do." -- Galileo

"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." -- Henry David Thoreau

"The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature." -- Anne Frank

"To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves." -- M. K. Gandhi

"In summer, the song sings itself." -- William Carlos Williams

"Keep your sense of proportion by regularly, preferably daily, visiting the natural world." -- Caitlin Matthews

"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us" -- Iris Murdoch"Summer afternoon . . . summer afternoon - the two most beautiful words in the English language." -- Henry James"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite..." -- e.e. Cummings

All photos taken in my parent's wonderful garden. The above picture shows a part of the garden on a very rainy day last week!