a walk in the yard

And when by night the May wind blows

The lilac-blooms apart,

The memory of his first love

Is shaken on his heart.

~Louise Imogen Guiney

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, 

it must be a duck.

1. (noun) blow'ball
the downy seed head of a dandelion, which children delight to blow away

“Nature will bear the closest inspection. 

She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, 

and take an insect view of its plain.”

~Henry David Thoreau

I like the sound of wind chimes, too...

It seemed to me that they sounded different at different times of the year,

but then I realized that I was the one who was different.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.

- Chinese proverb

If you've never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, 

maybe your soul has never been in bloom. 

 ~Terri Guillemets

I like trees because they seem more resigned to 

the way they have to live than other things do. 

 ~Willa Cather, 1913

The LORD reigns; he is robed in majesty; 

the LORD is robed; he has put on strength as his belt. 

Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved.

~Psalm 93:1

We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened. Jim he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened; I judged it would have took too long to MAKE so many. Jim said the moon could a LAID them; well, that looked kind of reasonable, so I didn't say nothing against it, because I've seen a frog lay most as many, so of course it could be done.

~The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn