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