“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
Nature
I have a Bird in spring
Which for myself doth sing –
The spring decoys.
And as the summer nears –
And as the Rose appears,
Robin is gone.
Yet do I not repine
Knowing that Bird of mine
Though flown –
Learneth beyond the sea
Melody new for me
And will return.
“It is the month of June,
The month of leaves and roses,
When pleasant sights salute the eyes,
And pleasant scents the noses.”
“The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers:
They call it ‘easing the Spring.’ “
– Henry Reed
“I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown,
for going out, I found, was really going in.” John Muir
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
Chinese proverb ~
“Take a walk with a turtle.
And behold the world in pause.”
Bruce Feiler
“A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers,
but borrowed from his children.” — John James Audubon
Maverick Mist 