Printable Vintage Art: Cap Martin (Côte d´Azur) by August Neven du Mont

Cap Martin (Côte d´Azur), 1908
by August Neven du Mont (1866–1909)

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When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me! Life is not easy, life is not difficult. Those are childish thoughts. Let God speak within you, and your thoughts will grow silent. You are anxious because your path leads away from mother and home. But every step and every day lead you back again to the mother. Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
― Herman Hesse, Bäume: Betrachtungen und Gedichte

I imagine what it must be like to stay hidden, disappear in the dusky nothing and stay still in the night. It’s not sadness, though it may sound like it. I’m thinking about people and trees and how I wish I could be silent more, be more tree than anything else, less clumsy and loud, less crow, more cool white pine, and how it’s hard not to always want something else, not just to let the savage grass grow.
― Ada Limon, Bright Dead Things

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Printable Vintage Art: June by John White Alexander

June, c1911
by John White Alexander (1856–1915)

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Sometimes I wake up and lie still enough to hear a petal drop from the vase of flowers. Sometimes I lie awake and wish there was someone to hear my falling.
― Simon Van Booy, The Illusion of Separateness

Each flower is a secret language. When I wear a combination of flowers together, it's like I'm writing my own secret code that no one else can understand unless they know my language.
― Holly Ringland, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

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Printable Vintage Illustration: A Walk in the Woods

I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw
Or heard or felt came not but from myself;
And there I found myself more truly and more strange.
― Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems
This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.
― John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

19th century illustration of a woman on a nature walk in the woods, surrounded by wildflowers. 5” x 9” @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here


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