"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882

"Should I pluck it, my hands would defile the flower; I offer it, as it stands, to the Buddhas of the Three Worlds."

Empress Kōmyō, Japan

701 - 760

"If the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive."

Eleanora Duse

October 3, 1858 - April 21, 1924