“Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze. Gaining and failing they are buffeted by a dark wind - But what? On harsh weedstalks the flock has rested - the snow is covered with broken seed husks and the wind tempered with a shrill piping of plenty.” AgeDarkFailingTreeWindBrokenBirdSeedsSnowOld AgeFlightPlentyCoveredHarshFlocksSkimmingBare Trees Author:William Carlos Williams
“Let us not confuse objectives with methods. Too many so-called leaders of the nation fail to see the forest because of the trees. Too many of them fail to recognize the vital necessity of planning for definite objectives. True leadership calls for the setting forth of the objectives and the rallying of public opinion in support of these objectives.” WisdomPoliticsNationsLeaderOpinionSupportEconomyFailingTreeMethodPlanningSettingForestsObjectivesSettingsLiberalismDefinitePublic OpinionTrue LeaderTrue LeadershipRallying Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Be mine that silent calm repast, A conscience cheerful to the last: That tree which bears immortal fruit, Without a canker at the root; That friend which never fails the just, When other friends desert their trust.” LastsFailingTreeMinesBearsConscienceRootsSilentFruitCalmDesertImmortalCheerful Book:The Poems of Cooper, and Cotton Source: The Poems of Cooper, and Cotton
“The future is always fairyland to the young. Life is like a beautiful and winding lane, on either side bright flowers, and beautiful butterflies and tempting fruits, which we scarcely pause to admire and to taste, so eager are we to hasten to an opening which we imagine will be more beautiful still. But by degrees, as we advance, the trees grow bleak; the flowers and butterflies fail, the fruits disappear, and we find we have arrived--to reach a desert waste.” StillsBeautifulYoungLife IsGrowsSidesImagineFailingTreeFlowerTasteFutureDegreesWasteFruitDisappearAdmireOpeningDesertButterflyPausesLife Is LikeLanesBleakTemptingYoung LifeBeautiful Butterfly Author:George Augustus Henry Sala
“The story of the cursing of the fig tree is important for us today, for as the Jews of Jesus' time were accountable for failing to bring forth fruit, so too are we accountable for the fruits we bring forth.” ImportantStoriesTodayJesusFailingTreeFruitJewCursingFigs Author:Eric D. Huntsman