(why I travel to Butchart Gardens near Victoria as often as I can)
“Flowers…are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
“How many undervalue the power of simplicity! But it is the real key to the heart.”
–William Wordsworth
“I love my past. I love my present. I’m not ashamed of what I’ve had, and I’m not sad because I have it no longer.”
–Colette
“Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.”
–Berthold Auerbach
“The quieter you become, the more you can hear.”
–Ram Dass
“There is enchantment right in front of you, waiting for you to notice.”
–Janet Luhrs