Magnolia stellata
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“A man should hear a little music,
read a little poetry,
and see a fine picture every day of his life,
in order that worldly cares
may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful
which God has implanted in the human soul.”
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
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Socrates
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“It is a happiness to wonder; –
– it is a happiness to dream.”
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Edgar Allan Poe
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“When we try to pick out anything by itself,
we find it hitched to everything else
in the universe.
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John Muir
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“The invariable mark of wisdom
is to see the miraculous in the common.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“When you don’t cover up the world
with words and labels,
a sense of the miraculous returns to your life
that was lost a long time ago
when humanity, instead of using thought,
became possessed by thought.”
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Eckhart Tolle
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Photos by Woodland Gnome 2018
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“Incidentally, the world is magical.
Magic is simply
what’s off our human scale…
at the moment.”
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Vera Nazarian
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Forest Garden 
Lovely blooms. Are the yellow ones Iris? What’s the third to the last picture called?
Hi Arlene! The yellow flowers are Narcissus. The third to last photo are Iris histrioides ‘Lady Beatrix Stanley.’ All of these were ordered through Brent and Becky’s Bulbs. Their shop is about an hour north of us, and so we do a bit of business with them. Thank you for asking ❤ ❤ ❤
Thanks!