“I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.”
L.M. Montgomery, Anne Of The Island
Category: Quotes
Of All The Paths You Take In Life…
“Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.”
John Muir
Adopt The Pace Of Nature…
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In every walk with nature…
In every walk with nature, one receives more than he seeks.
~ John Muir
Study Nature . . .
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Frank Lloyd Wright
In The Spring . . .
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt ~ Margaret Atwood
Let Nature Be Your Teacher
The Tables Turned by William Wordsworth
Up! up! my Friend, and quit your books;
Or surely you’ll grow double:
Up! up! my Friend, and clear your looks;
Why all this toil and trouble?
The sun above the mountain’s head,
A freshening lustre mellow
Through all the long green fields has spread,
His first sweet evening yellow.
Books! ’tis a dull and endless strife:
Come, hear the woodland linnet,
How sweet his music! on my life,
There’s more of wisdom in it.
And hark! how blithe the throstle sings!
He, too, is no mean preacher:
Come forth into the light of things,
Let Nature be your teacher.
She has a world of ready wealth,
Our minds and hearts to bless—
Spontaneous wisdom breathed by health,
Truth breathed by cheerfulness.
One impulse from a vernal wood
May teach you more of man,
Of moral evil and of good,
Than all the sages can.
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings;
Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:—
We murder to dissect.
Enough of Science and of Art;
Close up those barren leaves;
Come forth, and bring with you a heart
That watches and receives.
Happy May Day!
“Mist in May, heat in June, makes the harvest come right soon”
Traditional English rhyme
A Single, Valuable Idea . . .
Give your child a single, valuable idea, and you have done more for their education than if you had laid upon his mind the burden of bushels of information
~Charlotte Mason~
We all have need to be trained to see . . .
“We all have need to be trained to see and to have our eyes opened before we can take in the joy that is meant for us in this beautiful life.”
Charlotte Mason ~ Volume 4: Ourselves