I wish so to live ever as to derive my satisfactions and inspirations from the commonest events.

 

"I wish so to live ever as to derive my satisfactions and inspirations from the commonest events, every-day phenomena, so that what my senses hourly perceive, my daily walk, . . . may inspire me, and I may dream of no heaven but that which lies about me.  A person may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him?"

Henry David Thoreau

Photo: Wild Plum bushes in bloom, with red cliffs behind; Lory State Park, CO; April 24, 2014