There’s a double beauty whenever a swan swims on a lake with her double thereon.
–Thomas Hood
Category Archives: Quotations
As We See the World
We don’t see things as they are; we see things as we are.
Anais Nin
Matthaei Woods, Michigan
Invincible Summer
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
Pine River, Michigan
Huron National Forest
“…and pondered them in her heart.”
And they that heard it wondered at the things which the shepherds told.
But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.
Luke 2: 18-19
May we all ponder in our heart the things of special meaning to us.
Fleming Creek, Michigan
A Quiet Brook at Winter Solstice
Daisy: Do you ever watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it?
Jay Gatsby: Don’t you mean the shortest day of the year, Daisy?
Daisy: Jay, I’m p-p-paralyzed with happiness that the days will be getting longer now. (a few liberties taken with Great Gatsby)
Bold Winds Speechless
But, as we often see against some storm
A silence in the heavens, the rack stand still
The bold winds speechless, and the orb below
As hush as death, anon the dreadful thunder
Doth rend the region.
—William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Summer storms in Michigan approach “anon the thunder.”
Tasting Life Twice
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.”
– Anais Nin
Nature Through Our Filter
What we observe is not nature, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
-Werner Heisenberg
Huron National Forest, Michigan
Our Doubts Are Traitors
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
Genesis
This is a wonderful day. I have never seen this one before.
Maya Angelou
Hartwick Pines, Michigan
