Author name: Mary Anne Smrz

“Between whom there is hearty truth there is love.”  -Henry David Thoreau, Thoreau and the Art of Life, posthumously      These […]

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

“The life in us is like the water in the river.”  -Henry David Thoreau, Walden      Panta Rhei…means everything flows, according

“Not until we are lost do we begin to find ourselves.”  -Henry David Thoreau, Walden        “Every time a bell rings,

“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,

 “Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to