Wisdom doesn’t automatically come with old age. Nothing does – except wrinkles.
It’s true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place. Abigail Van Buren

this image is submitted to The Women’s Colony photo challenge.

Wine is bottled poetry. Robert Louis Stevenson

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

If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed [and] if we are not willing [to change], we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect. Jacques Cousteau

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Late Fragment
And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.
~Raymond Carter

Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about ~where~ we shall land, but rather on the belief that we ~shall~ land. Carter Heyward

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him. Auguste Rodin

A jewel’s just a rock put under enormous heat and pressure. Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look. Jodi Picoult