Simples Quotes

We have gone out several times this summer to gather simples and linden blossoms, etc. In each excursion we discover something marvelous, beautiful, and useful in the magnificent forests of Indiana. At each step we can admire the grandeur, the power, the goodness of God. How bountifully He provides for all our wants -- I would even say for our pleasures! I love our woods and solitude very much; ... (Théodore Guérin)
And mine a shielded heart for her Who gathers simples of the moon. View quote
James Joyce
But it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, which, by often rumination, wraps me in the most humorous sadness. View quote
William Shakespeare
Life's great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God's mysterious promptings. View quote
Bill Hybels