The human spirit needs places where nature
has not been rearranged by the hand of man.
~Author Unknown

There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you....
In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other;
Only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.
~Ruth Stout

The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground.
~Author Unknown

Most grandmas have a touch of the scallywag.
~Helen Thomson

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like.
Design is how it works.
~Steve Jobs

Peace - that was the other name for home.
~Kathleen Norris

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world,
which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime,
and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
~Edna St. Vincent Millay

There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child.
There are seven million.
~Walt Streightiff

A grandmother is a babysitter who watches the kids instead of the television. ~Author Unknown

Winter is on my head,
but eternal spring is in my heart.
~Victor Hugo

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
~Aristotle

In the right light,
at the right time,
everything is extraordinary.
~Aaron Rose

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.
~John Howard Pane

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
~Rabbi Abraham Heschel

The Coast of Maine.................How Quaint!

Have nothing in your houses that you do not
know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
~William Morris

I will be the gladdest thing under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.
~Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Afternoon on a Hill"

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Camden Harbor