Book Quotes of the Day: Spring

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Alice Walker, Bible, Flower, LETTERS TO A YOUNG POET (Shambhala Pocket Classics), nature, Photography, Quotes, Rainer Maria Rilke, solomon in all his glory, spring

Spring in Northern California. (Taken with iPhone)

It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.
― Rainer Maria Rilke

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved.  You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?  ~Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1982

And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin,  yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.  – Matthew 6:28-29 (ESV)

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