19072013

Friends are born, not made. Henry Adams

25.6.2013

Truth never damages a cause that is just. Mahatma Gandhi

25.6.2013

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. Mahatma Gandhi

24.6.2013

Sleep is the best meditation. Dalai Lama

8.3.2013

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming. Pablo Neruda

19012013

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? T. S. Eliot

3.12.2012

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. Albert Einstein

9.8.2012

There are always flowers for those who want to see them. Henri Matisse

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind. Abraham Lincoln

22.6.2012

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touched by the thorns. Thomas Moore

17.6.2012

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. Paul Valery

African Daisy (Osteospermum Ecklonis White)

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. Douglas Adams

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. Oscar Wilde

28.5.2012

Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well. Jonathan Carroll

I love feeling the crispness of fall and the sensuality of spring. Christopher Meloni

13.5.2012

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment. Ellis Peters

Ficedula hypoleuca, Pied flycatcher, Svartvit flugsnappare, Must- kärbsenäpp, Kirjosieppo

Life is half spent before we know what it is. George Herbert

12.05.2012

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. Robert Frost

4.5.2012 Vesijärvi, Pirttisaari

Friends are born, not made. Henry B. Adams

Pica pica, Magpie, Skata, Harakas, Harakka

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
John Leonard

Carduelis spinus, Siskin, Grönsiska, Siisike, Vihervarpunen

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Dag Hammarskjold

Carduelis spinus, Siskin, Grönsiska, Siisike, Vihervarpunen

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
Aristotle

Erithacus rubecula, Robin, Rödhake, Punarind, Punarinta

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
Socrates

Fringilla coelebs, Chaffinch, Bofink, Metsvint, Peippo

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert Einstein

11.4.2012

You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
Sitting Bull

8.4.2012

This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.
Sitting Bull

Happy Easter! 8.4.2012

It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
Sitting Bull

6.4.2012

He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart, he put other different desires.
Sitting Bull

6.4.2012

God made me an Indian.
Sitting Bull

5.4.2012

Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!
Sitting Bull

1.4.2012

Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.
John Bradshaw

17.3.2012

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
William Hazlitt

15.3.2012

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
John Lubbock

10032012

There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
Edouard Manet

20022012

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
Ansel Adams

17022012

When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life.
Whitney Houston

12022012

I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe.
Whitney Houston

3.2.2012 The wintry forest, 23 degrees below zero

Friends are born, not made.
Henry B. Adams

21012012

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
Nelson Mandela

11012012

Know how to live the time that is given you.
Dario Fo

13 degrees below zero

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
Sholom Aleichem

8.1.2012

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

31.12.2011

Life is too short to stress yourself with people who don't even deserve to be an issue in your life. - Anon


Felix sit annus novus MMXII

22.12.2011

A friend to all is a friend to none.
Aristotle

20.12.2011

Give, but do not allow yourself to be used; Love, but do not allow your heart to be abused; Trust, but do not be naive; Listen to others, but do not lose yourself.

Pica pica, Magpie

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

10.12.2011

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus

7.12.2011

You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time: but you can´t fool all of the people all of the time. - Abraham Lincoln

Passer montanus, Tree sparrow.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.
Paulo Coelho

The Light

If you want to be original be yourself; God never made two people exactly alike.