To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

All walking is discovery. On foot we take the time to see things whole.

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

There it is, fog, atmospheric moisture still uncertain in destination, not quite weather and not altogether mood, yet partaking of both.

As I stood and watched the mists slowly rising this morning I wondered what view was more beautiful than this.

Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination.

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror.

A Godly Person Is Living Simple And Yet Happy An Ungodly Person Is Living Luxuriously And Yet So Sad

Maxi dresses are also my best friend. They take me from my morning coffee, to the beach, to nighttime.

I believe in forgiveness I believe in trying to work with people.

Ruth's writing is so joyful, funny and uplifting; it's always a real treat of a read.

Hatched in the same nest.

There is no mercy in trading life for life. And certainly no righteousness. Mercy, once given, cannot be taken back.

I don't do nothin’ I don't want to do.

You can see now with all the assurance that people have about the overall general management of the economy, they then ask more specific questions that we are able to answer.

After each perceived security crisis ended, the United States has remorsefully realized that the abrogation of civil liberties was unnecessary.