My "Daily Ray of Hope" Photos

One of my favorite nature-related things is the Sierra Club's Daily Ray of Hope email. It's simply an interesting nature image with an inspirational quotation, every weekday morning. Anyone can submit a photo through the Sierra Club's Daily Ray of Hope Flickr group. I've been lucky enough to have had seven of mine selected. Here they are, along with the quotes they were paired with. Enjoy!

May 1, 2013—Wildflowers, Oak Hill, NY

There is no other door to knowledge than the door nature opens, there is no other truth except the truths we discover in nature.—Luther Burbank

June 15, 2012—Stone on Stone, Greenfield, MA

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.—W.B. Yeats

February 6, 2012—Blue Jay and Cardinal, Kensington, Brooklyn

Wherever you are—be all there.—Jim Elliot

January 22, 2012—Pine amid Princess Pine, Betty & Wilbur Davis State Park

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.—Maria Schell

March 17, 2009—Witch Hazel in Prospect Park, near the Audubon Center

If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.—Rachel Carson

December 3, 2008—Pumpkins on a Doorstep, Union Street, Park Slope

Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.—Anna Freud

April 28, 2008—Reeds, Promised Land SP, Poconos

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.—Louisa May Alcott