Winter, Anne Bradstreet

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

- Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)

Advice, Mark

The Mustard Seed

It is like a mustard seed that, when it is sown in the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on the earth. But once it is sown, it springs up and becomes the largest of plants and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the sky can dwell in its shade.

+ Gospel of Mark 4,31-32

http://www.usccb.org/bible/mark/4

Salvation, Psalms

For you are my rock and my fortress; for your name’s sake lead me and guide me.

- Psalms (Chapter 31), Old Testament, Bible

http://www.nccbuscc.org/bible/books-of-the-bible/

Autumn, Percy Bysshe Shelley

There is a harmony. In autumn, and a lustre in its sky, Which through the summer is not heard or seen, As if it could not be, as if it had not been!

- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

Autumn, Albert Camus

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

- Albert Camus (1913-1960)

Autumn, Mitchell Burgess

If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It's a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it's time to reflect on what's come before.

- Mitchell Burgess

Desert, Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump from Forest Gump (1994)

The desert, when the sun comes up...I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began.

― Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump from Forest Gump