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The Olive Grove |
Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine in the very heart of your house, your children like olive plants all around your table. ~Psalm 128:3
Thursday 9 April 2009 - Nature Notes
April is the height of wildflower season here in central Texas.
Here is what we have noticed blooming this week:
"And this our life,
exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees,
books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones,
and good in every thing."
~William Shakespeare: As You Like It, II, 1
"A man should hear a little music,
read a little poetry,
and see a fine picture every day of his life,
in order that worldly cares may not obliterate
the sense of the beautiful which God
has implanted in the human soul."
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."
~C.S. Lewis
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
~Galileo Galilei
"A room without books
is like a body without a soul."
~Cicero
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
~Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
~Charles W. Eliot