| Spring in Texas Hill Country |
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| The photos on this page are from Texas Hill Country, a region in the central/southern area of Texas. It's known for its beautiful and abundant wildflowers, especially in spring, when the hills come alive with the vibrant colors of bluebells, buttercups, painted daisies and many, many other varieties. It's home to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. |
| For lack of attention, a thousand kinds of beauty elude us every day. -- Evelyn Underhill |
| Beauty is whatever gives joy. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have the things about us. -- Iris Murdoch |
| Most things possess their own unique kind of beauty, but not everyone sees it. -- Confucius |
| There's something healing in the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring comes after winter. -- Rachel Carson |
| Stop along the road and smell the flowers. -- Walter Hagen |
| Eventually, every gardener becomes a philosopher. -- Barbara Borland |
| Nature doesn't make long speeches. -- Lao Tzu |
| Where flowers bloom, so does hope. -- Lady Bird Johnson |
| In winter, each flower, each stone, Each stick, each leaf, Speaks to me of the old time grief. But when I walk this way in spring, They laugh, and I laugh, They sing, and I sing. -- Mary Elizabeth Mahnkey |
