Oh, Earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.
    - Thornton Wilder

I said to the almond tree
Sister, speak to me of God.
And the almond tree blossomed.
    - Nikos Kazantzakis

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
      - Charles Dickens

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This is a two-page spread from one of the journals currently in progress, the working title of which is:

Meditations On Gratitude, Beauty and Mystery: An Art Journal