In summer, the song sings itself.
-William Carlos Williams

There are two ways to live your life - one is as if nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein

I am following nature without being able to grasp her. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
-Claude Monet

summer bounty (cut paper)

Life is full of beauty. Notice it.
-Ashley Smith

Never lose an opportunity to see anything that is beautiful. It is God's handwriting - a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson