
“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

“The nearer the dawn, the darker the night”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Art is the child of Nature.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide. ”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Voices of the Night

“Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves
that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Perserverence is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

‘Tis always morning somewhere, and above
The awakening continents, from shore to shore,
Somewhere the birds are singing evermore. – H.W. Longfellow
Quote from the intro to Our Native Birds by Henry Nehrling – going to his garden today!
