Every time you see the sun...

"Every time you see the sun, take it as a personal challenge. Can you make your heart beam that badass and bright?" -Sera Beak; Divinewinks.com

The earth laughs in flowers.

"The earth laughs in flowers." -e.e. cummings

...green tree in your heart...

"Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come." -Chinese proverb

...the tale of the world...

"Sara Kendell once read somewhere that the tale of the world is like a tree." -Charles de Lint; Moonheart

To see a World...

"To see a World in a Grain of Sand / And a Heaven in a Wildflower / Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand / And Eternity in an hour." -William Blake; The Auguries of Innocence

What I do know...

"What I do know is that we've all got our hidden currents, no matter how wide and friendly the river seems. Start casting deep enough and who knows what you'll dredge up." -Charles de Lint; Someplace to Be Flying

and in that moment...

"... and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem." -Diana Gabaldon; Dragonfly in Amber

I was reading about how countless species...

"I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man's destruction of forests. Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." -Bill Watterson; Calvin and Hobbes

A single rose can be my garden...

"A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world." -Leo Buscaglia

Love is much like a wild rose...

"Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in it's defense." -Mark Overby

and she thought that...

"... and she thought that in this life and maybe in all lives she would remember that love sounded like the sea, and the beat of her heart was waves on the beach and she would hear its echo in the nucleus of every shell." -Jan Siegel; Prospero's Children

Have you never dreamed...

"Have you never dreamed of riding the wind, chasing the clouds, dancing like a sunbeam on the face of the water? Would you not wish to see the past in an empty mirror--or to hear the music of the stars--to pull down the rainbow--to call up the long-lost dead? You have imagination: use it, give it vitality and force. Turn it into your weapon, a weapon more powerful and more deadly than any of the clumsy engines invented by modern Man." -Jan Siegel; Prospero's Children

Who's soul is greater...

"Whose soul is greater than the ocean and spirit greater than the sea's embrace." -Shakespeare in Love

'Beware of me,' the sea says...

" 'Beware of me,' the sea says, 'but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.' " -Ralph Waldo Emerson