desert diva

“The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.”

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The teeming autumn, big with rich increase, bearing the wanton burden of the prime.”

~ William Shakespeare

“The year’s last, loveliest smile.“

~ William Cullen Bryant

“Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”

~ Holy Bible – Matthew 6:19-21

Dedicated to Edward Paul Abbey (January 29, 1927 – March 14, 1989), an American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues and criticism of public land policies.

“What heart has not acknowledged the influence of this hour, the sweet and soothing hour of twilight, the hour of love, the hour of adoration, the hour of rest, when we think of those we love only to regret that we have not loved them more dearly, when we remember our enemies only to forgive them.“

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“If you have any faith, give me, for heaven’s sake, a share of it! Your doubts you may keep to yourself, for I have a plenty of my own.”

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe