Don't believe them when they tell you how economical and thrifty nature is whose leaves return to the soil.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to leave them on the tree in the first place.
-Annie Dillard

summer

All the way to heaven is heaven.
-St. Catherine of Siena

Living in the middle of beauty like this, we've no call to have puny ideas about God. ...His world is so fancy fine, so full of wonderment.
-Catherine Marshall

I will be the gladdest thing under the sun. I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.
-Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

And this our life exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks
Sermons in stones and good in everything.
-William Shakespeare

The earth laughs in flowers.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

I thank you God for this amazing day . . . for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes.
-e.e.cummings

Some people like flowers, give pleasure just by being.
-unknown

A cluster of berry siblings, all from the same stem-
Some come to ripeness early
Some linger back and absorb nutrients at a more tranquil pace.
They are all right on time in Your gracious agenda.

-Mary VK Peterson Espial: Noticings and Spottings

In June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day.
No man can heed all these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.
-Aldo Leopold