haiku poems for kids about nature

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. ~Doris Lessing



Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart. ~Ruth Graham



The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow. ~Author Unknown



The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars. ~Andre Gide, Journals, 4 August 1930



I have woven a parachute out of everything broken. ~William Stafford



A man hasn't got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined. ~Anne Petry



I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. ~Mark Twain



Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. ~Les Brown



The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec. ~Marcus Dolengo



A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation. ~Karl Kraus



Luck has a peculiar habit of favoring those who don't depend on it. ~Author Unknown



Every character has an inward spring; let Christ be that spring. Every action has a keynote; let Christ be that note, to which your whole life is attuned. ~Henry Drummond



It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, "In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions." ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. ~Friedrich Nietzsche



Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis



The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right. ~Robert Farrar Capon, "Being Let Go," New York Times, 5 August 1984 The shortest answer is doing. ~Lord Herbert



War is nothing less than a temporary repeal of the principles of virtue. It is a system out of which almost all the virtues are excluded, and in which nearly all the vices are included. ~Robert Hall



I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since. ~Arturo Toscanini



It was his nature to blossom into song, as it is a tree's to leaf itself in April. ~Alexander Smith