Steps to Life

“Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.” –
Ann Landers

The Hopeful Shade

“Measure your mind’s height by the shade it casts.”
– Robert Browning

The River Sky

“The sky is always there for me, while my life has been going through many, many changes. When I look up the sky, it gives me a nice feeling, like looking at an old friend.”
– Yoko Ono

The Resting Lemur

“Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best.”
– St. Jerome

Old Garden Cottage

“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.”
– Luther Burbank

The Rolling Fields

“As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.”
– John Adams

The Back Road

“There’s a lot of optimism in changing scenery, in seeing what’s down the road.”
– Conor Oberst

The Back Street

“At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.”
– Albert Camus

The Palace Garden

“A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.”
– Luis Barragan

A Greenery Rest

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
— John Muir