Frank Bolles quotes

“No one can look at a pine tree in winter without knowing that spring will come again in due time.”
-- Frank Bolles

Source : Frank Bolles (1896). “At the north of Bearcamp Water Chronicles of a stroller in New England from July to December”

#Spring Quotes #Winter Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“I do not know when it was, nor where it was, nor how young I may have been, but I can recall. . . a sudden feeling of happiness at hearing the voice of the pines.”
-- Frank Bolles

Source : Frank Bolles (1896). “At the north of Bearcamp Water Chronicles of a stroller in New England from July to December”

#Nature Quotes #Voice Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“If we are in tune with Nature, all her music can find a way into the heart. When bird music is rare, their occasional songs are precious to the ear.”
-- Frank Bolles

#Song Quotes #Nature Quotes #Heart Quotes

“A little group of thatched cottages in the middle of the village had an orchard attached; and I remember well the peculiar purity of the blue sky seen through the white clusters of apple blossom in spring. I remember being moonstruck looking at it one morning early on my way to school. It meant something for me; what, I couldn't say. It gave me such an unease at heart, some reaching out towards perfection such as impels men into religion, some sense of the transcendence of things, of the fragility of our hold on life.”

“June suns, you cannot store them To warm the winter's cold, The lad that hopes for heaven Shall fill his mouth with mould.”

“Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way out.”

“The harshest winter finds an invincible summer in us.”

“Please remember the hundreds of tiny empty stomachs in our communities. Winter is a tough time for birds and other small creatures as food can become buried beneath snow or frozen ground. Scatter seeds in your yard, nearby parks.”

“One should not be happy or distressed over desirables and undesirables, knowing that such feelings are just created by the mind.”

“But I will say this: In my humble opinion, knowing nothing about it, I do believe that they have remote viewers working on where Osama Bin Laden is. I absolutely, 100%, convinced of that.”

“The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 12, 2013

“Wherefor are you knowing it? If you stacked all of the Gorg in the galaxy on top of eachother, the Gorg would kill you.”

“Knowing that I am different from the body, I need not neglect the body. It is a vehicle that I use to transact with the world. It is the temple which houses the Pure Self within.”