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I said to myself -- I'll paint what I see -- what the flower is to me but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it -- I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers. {Georgia O’Keeffe}
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It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility. {Rachel Carson}
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Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory. ~Betty Smith
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"Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home." ~Anna Quindlen (How Reading Changed My Life)
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February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer... ~Shirley Jackson
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"The universe is a temple, and those people who are alive to it can not lift their eyes without feeling themselves encompassed with it on every side." ~William Ellery Channing