Countryside

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.  ~John Muir

When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!  ~Henri Rousseau

Joy all creatures drink
At nature's bosoms...
~Friedrich von Schiller,

Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds,
Exhilarate the spirit, and restore
The tone of languid nature.
~William Cowper

I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.  ~Vita Sackville

Nature is not only all that is visable to the eye, it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.  ~Kahlil Gibran

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.  ~Jane Austen

So.. what did you do today?

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