"If the day and the night are such
that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like
flowers and sweet-scented herbs, more elastic, more starry, more
immortal---that is your success."----Henry
David Thoreau
Dana: Elatior Begonia
"Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious
April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the
season of summer does come."----Thomas
Carlyle
Another view of Dana: Elatior Begonia
"The artist's world is limitless.
It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet
away. It is always on his doorstep."
----Paul Strand
"Nature understands her
business better than we do."
----Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
Angel Wing Begonias in the midst
of spring.
"Every blade of grass, each
leaf, each separate floret and petal, is an inscription speaking
of hope............."
----Richard Jefferies, The Pageant of Summer, June
1883
