"Well, it's a marvelous night for a Moondance

With the stars up above in your eyes
A fantabulous night to make romance
'Neath the cover of October skies
And all the leaves on the trees are falling
To the sound of the breezes that blow
And I'm trying to please to the calling
Of your heart-strings that play soft and low
And all the night's magic seems to whisper and hush
And all the soft moonlight seems to shine in your blush."


- Van Morrison, Moondance

"All things on earth point home in old October: sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken."


- Thomas Wolfe

"Just before the death of flowers,

And before they are buried in snow,
There comes a festival season
When nature is all aglow."


- Author Unknown

"Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities of the world." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844

“Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.” - P.G. Wodehouse

“Don't wear perfume in the garden - unless you want to be pollinated by bees.” - Anne Raver

"White ... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black.... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white."

--Gilbert Keith Chesterton [British author, 1874–1936]  “A Piece of Chalk,” Tremendous Trifles (1909)

"There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun." - Pablo Picasso 

"The whole world as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color." - Hans Hoffman (artist)

All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.

- George Harrison

"""We live in a "virtual reality" where deception has become

an integral part of the framework of society." - Steven Jacobson.

"Earth laughs in flowers." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"

"The clouds above us come together
and disperse; The breeze in the
courtyard departs and returns.
Life is like that, so why not relax?
Who can keep us from celebrating?" 

- Lu-Yu
  

“It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.”

 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes (German Playwright, Poet, Novelist and Dramatist. 1749-1832)

Boston Public Library (Boston, Massachusetts)

"I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of it. Now, when I read constantly about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that American society has found one more way to destroy itself."

— I, Asimov. New York: Doubleday, 1994.
Isaac ASIMOV

Boston Public Library courtyard (Boston, Massachusetts)

Boston Public Library (Boston, Massachusetts)

"My lifelong love affair with books and reading continues unaffected by automation, computers, and all other forms of the twentieth-century gadgetry."
— Books in My Life  by Robert DOWNS (1903- ) 

"The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries."
— Cosmos (Carl SAGAN)

 "...What is at stake is civilization and humanity, nothing less. The idea that "everything is permitted," as Nietzsche put it, rests on the premise of nihilism and has nihilistic implications. I will not pretend that the case against nihilism and for civilization is an easy one to make. We are here confronting the most fundamental of philosophical questions, on the deepest levels. In short, the matter of pornography and obscenity is not a trivial one, and only superficial minds can take a bland and untroubled view of it."
— "Pornography, Obscenity and the Case for Censorship" from On the Democratic Idea in America New York: Harper & Row, 1972. This essay originally appeared in the New York Times Magazine on March 28, 1971. (Irving KRISTOL) 

"He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot."

— Anonymous, Arabic Proverb

"Have you seen that portrait Gauguin did of me painting sunflowers? it was really I, but it's I gone mad." - Vincent Van Gogh

Dancing Bacchante with an Infant Faun sculpture by Frederick William MacMonnies (at the Boston Public Library courtyard)

"So, little sprite, come dance with me!

The sun is up, the wind is free!

Come now and trip it,

Romp and skip it,

Earth is young and so are we.

Sprite, you and I will dance together

On the heather,

Glad with all the procreant earth,

With all the fruitage of the trees,

And golden pollen on the breeze,

With plants that bring the grain to birth,

With beast and bird,

Feathered and furred,

With youth and hope and life and love,

And joy thereof—

While we are part of all, we two—

For my glad burgeoning in you!"

- from the 5th stanza of  "The Bacchante to Her Babe" (written 1917 by Eunice Tietjens)

"Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age."

- Jeanne Moreau

In the marsh pink orchid's faces
With their coy and dainty graces,
Lure us to their hiding places--
Laugh, O murmuring Spring! 

- Sarah Foster Davis, Summer Song

"We cannot see our reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see."

 - Taoist Proverb

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The First Church of Christ Scientist church dome (Boston, Massachusetts)

“Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.”

Richard Buckminster Fuller quotes (US engineer and architect, 1895-1983 )

"Everywhere water is a thing of beauty gleaming in the dewdrop,
singing in the summer rain."
- John Ballantine Gough

MIT corridor

“You walk through a series of arches, so to speak, and then, presently, at the end of a corridor, a door opens and you see backward through time, and you feel the flow of time, and realize you are only part of a great nameless procession.”

John Huston quotes (American Film Director whose taut dramas were some of the most popular films from the 1940s on. 1906-1987

God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, "Ah!"

- Joseph Campbell

Guitar Art by Dale Rogers (Massachusetts)

"I just go where the guitar takes me." (Angus Young)

Big Dog Art by Dale Rogers (Massachusetts)

"It creates a response. It invokes a thought." (Dale Rogers, Big Dog artist)

"Where flowers bloom so does hope."

- Lady Bird Johnson, Public Roads: Where Flowers Bloom

"There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud

was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin)

Soles of Haverhill (Funky Boots)

"These boots are made for walking, and that's just what they'll do

one of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you." (Nancy Sinatra)

Soles of Haverhill (Mercury Boots)

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."

Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)

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"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes." (Rabindranath Tagore)