"I said to my soul ...."

I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you

Which shall be the darkness of God….

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope

For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith

But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting….

We shall not cease from exploration

And the end of all our exploring

Will be to arrive where we started

And know the place for the first time.

T S Eliot

"A lake is the landscape's most beautiful ...."

A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.

Henry David Thoreau

"Though we travel the world over ...."

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Dwell on the beauty of life ...."

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

Marcus Aurelius

Bird brain?  But it's a wonderful life!

"The job is to seek mystery ...."

The job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom.  The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

Ken Kesey