Honouring the small things

The foundation of greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment, instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.

Eckhart Tolle

Flower Waltz

They say it’s Spring

Water

“Water, the Hub of Life. Water is its mater and matrix, mother and medium. Water is the most extraordinary substance! Practically all its properties are anomalous, which enabled life to use it as building material for its machinery. Life is water dancing to the tune of solids.”
–  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

“Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.”
–  Jacques Yves Costeau

“In every glass of water we drink, some of the water has already passed through fishes, trees, bacteria, worms in the soil, and many other organisms, including people…  Living systems cleanse water and make it fit, among other things, for human consumption.”
–  Elliot A. Norse, Animal Extinctions

“Don’t empty the water jar until the rain falls.”
–  Philippine proverb

“Rain scatters plum petals;
Weeping stains the earth.
One can only take shelter
And wait for clearing.”
–  Deng Ming Dao

“If there is magic on the planet, it is contained in the water.”
–  Loren Eisley

“Water is the driver of Nature.”
–  Leonardo da Vinci

“Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.”
–  John Updike

“Truths are first clouds; then rain, then harvest and food.”
–  Henry Ward Beecher

Innumerable as the stars of night,
Or stars of morning, dewdrops which the sun
Impearls on every leaf and every flower.
–   John Milton

I’m singing in the rain, just singing in the rain;
What a wonderful feeling, I’m happy again.
–  Arthur Freed