“Botany: We can live without every other science but we cannot live without plants. They are our food, our lungs, our strengths, our pleasure, our future and our hope. Our moment of wisdom is when we recognise this fact.”
Gail Joanne White
#ClassicLitMonday
‘When the moon is on the wave,
& the glow-worm in the grass,
& the meteor on the grave,
& the wisp on the morass;
When the falling stars are shooting,
& the answered owls are hooting,
& the silent leaves are still,
In the shadow on the hill’
-Lord Byron 1788-182
#ClassicLitMon
"Life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other clause—that it must be lived forward."
S. Kierkegaard, Journals, 1843
#ClassicLitMonday
‘We were not born to sue,
But to command.’
-Richard II
(Rainbow Lorikeets)
‘This must my comfort be,
That sun that warms you here shall shine on me.’
-Richard II
(Sulphur Crested Cockatoos)
@ShakespeareSunday
"The earth loves the rain," and "the solemn aether loves [to fall in rain]," and the Universe loves to make whatever is about to be."
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
#ClassicLitMonday
"The quality of mercy is not strain’d,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath."
Portia
The Merchant of Venice, A4S1
#ShakespeareSunday
The Waning Moon ✨-
it is so interesting to me that this phase of the moon cycle is considered with much less interest than that of the waxing Moon- yet it certainly seems stunning to me✨