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“When in these fresh mornings I go into my garden before anyone is awake, I go for the time being into perfect happiness. In this hour divinely fresh and still, the fair face of every flower salutes me with a silent joy. . . . All the cares, perplexities, and griefs of existence, all the burdens of life slip from my shoulders and leave me with the heart of a little child that asks nothing beyond the present moment of innocent bliss.”

“These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes to heaven or hell.”

Littles Turns Heaven Hell Fate Shadow Casts Ships Unconscious Slips Trifles Rudders Heaven Or Hell

Book:Life in the Iron-Mills

Source: Life in the Iron-Mills

“I'm that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with the snapping turtle; can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride upon a streak of lightning, and slip without a scratch down a honey locust [tree].”

Littles Half Tree Horse Touched Leap Honey Slips Lightning Scratches Mississippi Ohio Streaks Turtles Wade Alligators Snapping Backwoods

Book:Sketches and eccentricities of Col. David Crockett,: of West Tennessee

Source: Sketches and eccentricities of Col. David Crockett,: of West Tennessee

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike. This natural beauty-hunger is made manifest in the little window-sill gardens of the poor, though perhaps only a geranium slip in a broken cup, as well as in the carefully tended rose and lily gardens of the rich, the thousands of spacious city parks and botanical gardens, and in our magnificent National parks — the Yellowstone, Yosemite, Sequoia, etc. — Nature's sublime wonderlands, the admiration and joy of the world.”

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“Life can be wonderful. Do your best not to miss it!” Enjoy what it is before it isn't anymore. Dare to slip on a pair of bunny slippers once in a while! Surprise yourself! Enjoy the little things because one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things!”

Looks Littles Bigs Enjoy Realizing Wonderful Missing One Day Surprise Dare Pairs Little Things Slips Big Things Bunnies Slippers

Book:Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around

Source: Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around