“’Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature’s own sweet and cunning hand laid on: Lady, you are the cruel’st she alive, If you will lead these graces to the grave And leave the world no copy. William Shakespeare
“Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty’s form Glasses itself in tempests. George Noel Gordon (Lord Byron)
“All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all.Cecil Frances Alexander
“She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean, Rising with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance, with majestic motion, A ruler of the waters and their powers. George Noel Gordon (Lord Byron)
“All the wilderness seems to be full of tricks and plans to drive and draw us up into God’s light.John Muir