Simplicity

October is a feast for the eyes with extravagant rich colours, bountiful harvests and big fall skies. I have taken many pictures this month and in reviewing them noticed a few which portrayed a simple, peaceful beauty. I have matched them with some quotations about simplicity.

The best things in life are nearest:

Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes,
flowers at your feet, duties at your hand,
the path of right just before you.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back
and realize they were the big things.

Robert Brault

If you have a garden and a library,
you have everything you need.

Cicero

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Leonardo da Vinci

You can't force simplicity;
but you can invite it in by finding as
much richness as possible in the few things at hand.
Simplicity doesn't mean meagerness
but rather a certain kind of richness,
the fullness that appears when
we stop stuffing the world with things.

Thomas Moore