QUIPS & QUOTES

Selected by Debra Tweedy

I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.

--Anne Lamott, American writer, 1954-

Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.

--Sarah Ban Breathnach, American author and public speaker

Life isn’t long enough to do all you could accomplish. And what a privilege even to be alive. In spite of all the pollutions and horrors, how beautiful this world is. Supposing you only saw the stars once every year. Think what you would think. The wonder of it!

--Tasha Tudor, American illustrator and writer of children’s books, 1915-2008

Perhaps, after all, our best thoughts come when we are alone. It is good to listen, not to voices but to the wind blowing, to the brook running cool over polished stones, to bees drowsy with the weight of pollen. If we attend to the music of the earth, we reach serenity. And then, in some unexplained way, we share it with others.

--Gladys Taber, American author and columnist, 1899-1980

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It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

--Sir David Attenborough, English broadcaster, biologist and author, 1926That is one good thing about this world— there are always sure to be more Springs.

--L.M. Montgomery, Canadian author, 18741942

The air is like a butterfly With frail blue wings. The happy earth looks at the sky And sings.

--Joyce Kilmer, “Spring,” American poet, 18861918

March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight, which gradually lost itself in an elf land of moonshine.

--L.M. Montgomery, Canadian author, 18741942 painting 16

Longview native Debra Tweedy has lived on four continents. She and her husband decided to return to her hometown and bought a house facing Lake Sacajawea.“We came back because of the Lake and the Longview Public Library,” she says.

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