“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”
~ Ernest Hemingway
Painted Lady (Vanessa Cardui)
“The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.”
~ Socrates
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost,to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
“Focus is the soul of success.”
~ Sandeep Kakkar
“If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.”
― Maurice Maeterlinck, The Life of the Bee
Pear Blossoms
“Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring.”
~Lilly Pulitzer
“The longing for Paradise is man’s longing not to be man.”
~ Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Cercis canadensis (eastern redbud)
“I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything…”
~ Thomas Henry Huxley
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
~Soren Kierkegaard
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The Paper Kite, Rice Paper, or Large Tree Nymph butterfly is largely known for it’s presence in butterfly greenhouses and exhibitions. The Paper Kite is of Southeastern Asian origins.
Redbud
“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant:
if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”
~ Anne Bradstreet, Meditations Divine and Moral
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