Cheyenne Botanical Gardens

Then we went to the Cheyenne Botanical Garden, which I was especially anxious to visit to photograph flowers. Unfortunately, I didn’t take into account the higher latitude of Cheyenne. I’m sure the flowers will be in full bloom in about a month! However, even the early spring gardens held wonderful potential, and they had a great area with sayings in stone. I photographed my favorites and will type the quotes below.
He who conceals his disease cannot expect to be cured.

—Ethiopian Proverb

There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature—the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter.

—Rachel Carlson

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Enthusiasm is more important than intelligence.

—Albert Einstein

Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone: it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

—Ursula K. LeGuin

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

—Cicero

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

—Doug Larso

Focus on blame, and you lose the power to find solutions. Own your problems, forget the blame, and solutions will arise.

—Anonymous

Shared joy is double joy, and shared sorrow is half sorrow.

—Swedish Proverb

God is the friend of silence. Trees, flowers, grass grow in silence. See the stars, moon and sun, how they move in silence.

—Mother Teresa

Blessed are those that can give without remembering and take without forgetting.

—Elizabeth Bibesco

Live is eternal, and love is immortal, and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

—Rossiter W. Raymond

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

—Emerson

Carve your initials upon the sun, and live today till all today is done.

—Alison

And this our life exempt from public haunt finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones and good in everything.

—William Shakespeare

No shade tree? Blame not the sun by yourself.

—Chinese Proverb

The kiss of the sun for pardon, the song of the birds for mirth, one is neared God’s heart in a garden, than anywhere else on earth.

—Old Irish Saying

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field, I’ll meet you there.

—Rumi

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a way that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

—Native American Proverb

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

—German Proverb

The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you did not expect to sit.

—Nelson Henderson

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

—Johan W. von Goethe

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

—Nelson Mandela

Success is a journey not a destination.

—Ben Sweetland

They had a really neat labyrinth at the garden. The sign above explains the history and use of the labyrinth. To the left is looking at the labyrinth from the beginning. Below is looking over the labyrinth at ground level.

Here we are by the “Moon Arch” which lead into the labyrinth area.

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