Author name: Mary Anne Smrz

“Life is best experienced with a sense of awe, wonder and discovery. Go about life with a child’s curiosity.”  -Henry […]

“Simplify! Simplify! Simplify!”  -Henry David Thoreau, Walden        The unadorned yellow water flower grows in a state of ease, a solitary

“The true harvest of my life is intangible…a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched.”

“All nature is doing her best each moment to make us well – she exists for no other end. Do

“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.”  -Henry David Thoreau,

 “The earth I tread on is not a dead inert mass. It is a body, has a spirit; is organic

“The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man’s abode.”  -Henry

“Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a

“Of what significance the light of day, if it is not the reflection of an inward dawn? To what purpose

“A sky without clouds is a meadow without flowers, a sea without sails.” -Henry David Thoreau, Journal, June 24, 1852