Reading a book can have many benefits - it’s one of the best things you can do for your brain. Reading a beautiful book will multiply the benefits. The importance of beauty for everyday items is greatly undervalued.

Up here is the river's cloud-cradle; down there is its fullness and flow;.My voice joins the voice of your millions who upward in weariness grope,.And the hills bear the burden to heaven—humanity's anguish and hope!. ~ Lucy Larcom, “From the Mountain-Top”. The Wanderer Above

RT @BelinakiD: "Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.". - Johann Wolfgang von….

RT @rita_krug: “One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees. ” ― Leo….

National Wildlife Day, September 4, was established to bring awareness to the plight of wild animals. It was established to honor the memory of Steve Irwin, “The Crocodile Hunter,” killed by a stingray on September 4, 2006. He was an Australian environmentalist & TV personality

Happy Rose Wednesday. The rose is fairest when 't is budding new,.And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears;.The rose is sweetest washed with morning dew.And love is loveliest when embalmed in tears. ~ Sir Walter Scott. Still Life with Roses in a Glass Vase by

RT @CultureExploreX: I don’t know who needs to hear this…. But filling your life with beauty deliberately, every single day can change your….

Allen Drury, Sept. 2, 1918-Sept. 2, 1988, was an award-winning author & journalist. “People defend nothing more violently than the pretenses they live by.”. Drury won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the classic Advise and Consent, a political thriller about ambition and

The air is chill, and the day grows late,.And the clouds come in through the Golden Gate:.Phantom fleets they seem to me,.From a shoreless and unsounded sea;.Their shadowy spars and misty sails,.Unshattered, have weathered a thousand gales. ~ Edward Pollock (Sept. 2, 1823 -

Born Sept. 1. Dr. Phil McGraw (1950-), talk show host & writer, author of 10 bestsellers, the latest We’ve Got Issues. A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896-1977), Hare Krishna’s founder, author of 80+ books.Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950), writer, best known for the Tarzan

Shakespeare Sunday. From women's eyes this doctrine is derived:.They sparkle still the right Promethean fire;.They are the books, the arts, the academes,.That show, contain, and nourish all the world. ~ William Shakespeare, Love’s Labor’s Lost (4.3). Madame de Pompadour in

RT @MorganaBwrites: @athenaeumbc George Orwell's 1984 is a must-read. My favorite Orwell quotes include:."If liberty means anything at all,….

RT @Booksmiscellany: #MaryShelley.Mary Shelley: Born on this day in 1797. (Elsa Lanchester as the monster's bride, she also played Mary She….

Oh, summer has clothed the earth.In a cloak from the loom of the sun!.And a mantle, too, of the skies' soft blue,.And a belt where the rivers run. ~ Paul Laurence Dunbar, “In Summer”. The Glory of Summertime by Albert Williams (c. 1950)

Tasha Tudor, Aug. 28, 1915-June 18, 2008, was an award-winning writer and illustrator, best known for her children’s books. She loved the 1830s and for many years recreated an authentic lifestyle of that era for her family, which drew an international following. Her other

RT @MorganaBwrites: Johann Wolfgang van Goethe, August 28, 1749-March 22, 1832, was a poet, novelist, scientist, critic - Germany’s greates….

From This Moment On by Shania Twain, b. Aug. 28, 1965, is a fascinating memoir. It tells of the award-winning singer’s harsh childhood, tragedies & the rough road to success, sending the message that a devastating betrayal can be a blessing in disguise. I found this bestseller

RT @Valerie92831962: Hello Twitter Friends. Welcome to my New planet. Enjoy Your Everyday Life journey. Love and Kindness Lives Here. Many….

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Happy Rose Wednesday. Best and dearest flower that grows,.Perfect both to see and smell;.Words can never, never tell.Half the beauty of a Rose –. ~ Cicely Mary Barker. Roses by Edwin Deakin (1912). #RoseWednesday

RT @LaurasReviews1: The Mesopotamian Riddle by Joshua Hammer was an interesting look into ancient civilizations and the Victorian scholars….