Bethany

“And then as the evening changed the hour, at house after house on the twilight streets, under the immense oaks and elms, on shady porches, people would begin to appear, like those figures who tell good or bad weather in rain-or-shine clocks.”
― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

“The last of our summer visitants has taken his departure. About a fortnight ago a Chiff-chaff was constantly to be seen hopping about the Goose-berry bushes in the garden: - the last to leave us, he is usually the first to arrive.”
― Edith Holden, The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady

“When it's over, I don't want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.

I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.”
― Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

“There is no place like a tree for comfort, safety and good living. I'm sorry for anyone who can't live in a tree.”
― Thornton W. Burgess, At the Smiling Pool