"After a visit to this beach, it's hard to believe that we live in a material world." - Pam Shaw

 

“A youth, like a tree, needs pruning.” - Andrew Wiggins

 

“Thorns may hurt you, men desert you, sunlight turns to fog; but you’re never friendless ever, if you have a dog.” – Douglas Malloch

 

"The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

 

“All the lessons are in nature. You look at the way rocks are formed - the wind and the water hitting them, shaping them, making them what they are. Things take time, you know?” - Diane Lane

 

“Be like a dandelion, whenever they fall apart, they start again. Have hope.” - Unknown

 

"Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man." - Mario Botta

 

“Sunsets are proof that endings can often be beautiful too.” – Beau Taplin

 

“Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.” - George Bernard Shaw

 

“She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.” - Janet Fitch

 

“Parents hold their children's hands for a while, their hearts forever.” - Unknown

 

“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

 

“Our memories of the ocean will linger on, long after our footprints in the sand are gone.” - Unknown

 

“It's not what you look at that matters; it's what you see.” - Henry David Thoreau

 

“The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.” - Gregory Maguire

 

“This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.” - Alice Waters

 

“There are three species of creatures who when they seem coming are going, when they seem going, they come: diplomats, women, and crabs.” -John Hay

 

"Knowledge and imagination are the life buoy and the extra lung for breathing outside the walls of a tainted reality. " - Hassan Blasim

 

"No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat." - Dorothy Height

 

“We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.” - Martin Luther King Jr.

 

“Nature is the best medicine for serenity. Peace, calmness, stillness. It’s good for the heart.” Karen Madwell

 

The happiest people don't have the best of everything, they just make the best of what they have…” - Unknown

 

“'Sunrise Sunset' is about trying to get to a place where life is simple and not letting the stress and happenings in the world get in the way of your happiness.” - Benny Cassette

 

"A shirt's not just a shirt. It's the experience of what goes into that shirt." - Michael Bastian

 

"Pessimism drops the curtain on tomorrow." - Robert H. Schuller

 

“Trees give peace to the souls of men.” - Nora Waln

 

“Water is the most perfect traveller because when it travels it becomes the path itself” - Mehmet Murat ildan

 

“A chair must be really important as an object, because my mother always told me to offer my chair to a lady” - Ettore Sottsass

 

“The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.” - Masanobu Fukuoka