Nature's Soul..

"Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature." ~ Gerard De Nerval

Dreamy Tea Rose

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart." ~Helen Keller

Colorado Summer Clouds

“this heart yearns... for the salt of unsmelt air unswept thunderstorms... unknown adventures.” ~ Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence

Yucca Flowers

"Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity." ~ Leonardo da Vinci

Purple Orchids - True Queen

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair." ~Khalil Gibran

White Iris

"With beauty before me, may I walk With beauty behind me, may I walk With beauty above me, may I walk With beauty below me, may I walk With beauty all around me, may I walk" - Navajo Beauty Way

Purple, Wonder, majesty, and enchantment ....

Scarlet

“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.” ~ George Eliot “Trees generously share their fruit. Bees generously share their honey. Flowers generously share their perfume. Do likewise.” ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Bouquet of Roses

"Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you." ~Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Japanese Maple Tree - Portland Japanese Garden, OR

“I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!” ~John Muir

Scarlet - Colorado

"Colors speaks all languages." ~Joseph Addison.

Sandhill Crane ~ Venice Rookery, Venice, FL

"Art will never be able to exist without nature." ~ Pierre Bonnard

Pink Rose

"By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower." ~ Rabindranath Tagore

Rocky Mountain Columbines ( (Columbine Aquilegia caerulea) Colorado State Flower - James Peak Wilderness, Colorado

"The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks." ~ Tennessee Williams, Camino Real

Nature's Drapes - Colorado

"Colors speaks all languages." ~Joseph Addison.

Temple of Beauty - Skagit Valley, Mount Vernon, WA

"I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers." ~ Claude Monet

Pink Gladiolus - Colorado

"Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model." ~ Northrop Frye

Yellow Tea Rose

"Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values all the utilities of the world." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gladiolus - View from the back.

"Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model." ~ Northrop Frye

Yucca Flowers

"I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers." ~ Claude Monet

Legumes desert flowers

"When you possess light within, you see it externally." ~Anaïs Nin

Sunflower, Near DIA, CO

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." ~ Leonardo da Vinci

Purple Princes (Gladiolus)

"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own." ~ Charles Dickens

Great Blue Heron ~ Venice Rookery, Venice, FL

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” ~ Helen Keller

Colorado Autumn Snow

“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.” ~ Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

Purple & White Iris

"How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!" ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Autumn Fantasy ~Colorado

"Fiery colors begin their yearly conquest of the hills, propelled by the autumn winds. Fall is the artist!" - Animal Crossing: Wild World

Gladiolus -Yellow

"If one really loves nature, one can find beauty everywhere." ~ Vincent Van Gogh

Deep Purple

"Nature symbols are a paradox. They provide some of the most revealing and profound meanings for us, yet these meanings are often first overlooked!" ~Avia Venefica

Bee and Flower

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Be Mine!

"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it,” she said, cupping her hand and holding it closer to her face, “it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not." ~ GEORGIA O’KEEFFE, One Hundred Flowers, (Knopf/Callaway)

Great White Egret ~ Venice Rookery, Venice, Florida.

"Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art." ~ Georges Braque

Tea Rose (Apricot Blend), Colorado

"How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said." ~ Victor Hugo quotes (French romantic Poet, Novelist and Dramatist, 1802-1885)

Iris

"The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others." ~Albert Schweitzer

American Bistort - Subalpine Wildflower, James Peak Wilderness, CO

“The power of imagination makes us infinite.” ~John Muir

Golden Grasses

"If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive." ~ Eleonora Duse

American Bison

"Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect." ~ Chief Seattle, 1854

Foxtail Barley

“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair” ~ Khalil Gibran

Hot Cocoa Roses - Colorado

"The way you see nature depends on whatever has influenced your way of seeing." ~ Georgia O'Keeffe

Cleome serrulata -Rocky Mountain Bee Plant - Colorado

"Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them." ~ John Ruskin

"What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote." ~ Edward Abbey

Breathtaking Shine...

“Be patient my little wild one, wondrous things take time. A pearl is hidden before it’s refined. A diamond’s luster is dull before revealing brilliant magnificent breathtaking shine.” ~ Melody Lee, Vine: Book of Poetry

Hibiscus

"Just living is not enough... One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower." ~ Hans Christian Andersen

Gular Pouch

"Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance." ~ Eckhart Tolle