Thursday, March 31, 2016

Gustav Mahler

"With the coming of spring, I am calm again." - Gustav Mahler

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Annie Dillard

"There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind." - Annie Dillard

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Blaise Pascal

"Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere." - Blaise Pascal

Monday, March 28, 2016

Edouard Manet

"There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another." - Edouard Manet

Sunday, March 27, 2016

Ellsworth Huntington

"We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers." - Ellsworth Huntington

Saturday, March 26, 2016

Jean Paul

"The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven." - Jean Paul

Thursday, March 24, 2016

Georges Simenon

"The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world." - Georges Simenon

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

John Dryden

"Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas." - John Dryden

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Laurence Sterne

"God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb." - Laurence Sterne

Monday, March 21, 2016

Virgil

"As the twig is bent the tree inclines." - Virgil

Sunday, March 20, 2016

Thomas Carlyle

"The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better." - Thomas Carlyle

Friday, March 18, 2016

Matthew Arnold

"Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur." - Matthew Arnold

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Thomas Browne

"All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God." - Thomas Browne

Monday, March 14, 2016

Voltaire

"Nature has always had more force than education." - Voltaire

Sunday, March 13, 2016

Tom Allen

"While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best." - Tom Allen

Saturday, March 12, 2016

Saint Augustine

"Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature." - Saint Augustine

Friday, March 11, 2016

Pierre Schaeffer

"Sound is the vocabulary of nature." - Pierre Schaeffer

Thursday, March 10, 2016

Max Beerbohm

"To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature." - Max Beerbohm

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Luther Burbank

"We must return to nature and nature's god." - Luther Burbank

Snow

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For the past few weeks, we've been having highs of 90 degrees. As soon as the boys get back from school, they change into shorts (no T-shirts even!). All of our peach trees have bloomed, as well as almonds and some of the pears and plums. And now, all of a sudden, a front moved in and we are covered with snow.

It's the most snow we've had here, and the boys got to make their first ever snowman!

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Snow

Tuesday, March 8, 2016

John Keats

"Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer." - John Keats

Monday, March 7, 2016

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Sunday, March 6, 2016

James Montgomery

"The Dove, on silver pinions, winged her peaceful way." - James Montgomery

Saturday, March 5, 2016

H. P. Lovecraft

"Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time." - H. P. Lovecraft

Friday, March 4, 2016

Friedrich Schiller

"Nothing leads to good that is not natural." - Friedrich Schiller

Thursday, March 3, 2016

Elbert Hubbard

"The supernatural is the natural not yet understood." - Elbert Hubbard

Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Edmund Burke

"We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature." - Edmund Burke

Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine." - Anthony J. D'Angelo