Monarch Caterpillar - Seen through the Leaf

Monarch Caterpillar seen through the Leaf - Munching on the Milkweed

~ A Closer Look ~

The greatest quest in life is to reach one's potential. 
~ Mychal Wynn

Bee covered in Pollen

~Such AMAZING Creatures~

~A Closer Look~

I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?

~James Thomson

Caterpillar - Woolly White Wonder

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

~Albert Einstein

  Pandapas Pond - Blacksburg Virginia

Eastern Newt aka Red-spotted Newt

Keep close to Nature's heart...and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

~ John Muir

My first encounter with a Newt on land

Gateway Trail, Blacksburg Virginia

More info on this Newt found on Wikipedia - Here


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Common Buckeye Butterfly

Like a great poet, 
Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.

~Heinrich Heine

Tufted Titmouse Posing for Me

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?

~Fanny Brice

Bunny Rabbit - Listen

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, then you will have betrayed yourself.

- Dr. Rollo May