“In early June, the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.”
"If it is right, it happens. The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away."
- John Steinbeck
Love
"What good is the warm of summer without the cold of winter to give it sweetness."
- John Steinbeck
Balance
"What good is the warmth of summer without the cold of winter to give it sweetness?"
- John Steinbeck
Balance
"If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones."
- John Steinbeck
Compassion
"Beans are a warm cloak against economic cold."
- John Steinbeck
Compassion
"Christmas is a time when you get homesick, even when you're home."
- Carol Nelson
Nature
"We count down the days just to experience it nearly exactly as we always have. It is so comfortable, familiar and perfectly nostalgic that, frankly, we have no desire to improve upon it at all."
- Joanna Gaines
Nature
"The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood."
- Richard Paul Evans
Nature
"Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime."
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
Nature
"We count down the days just to experience it nearly exactly as we always have. It is so comfortable, familiar, and perfectly nostalgic that, frankly, we have no desire to improve upon it at all."
- Joanna Gaines
Nature