Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

“Le bonheur est un art à pratiquer, comme le violon.” 🎻

John Lubbock

“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.” ~ John Lubbock

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating. There is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

日光は心地良く、雨は爽やかで、風は私たちを元気付け、雪は愉快にさせてくれる。本当は悪天候のようなものはなく、ただ異なる種類の良い天気があるだけだ。

“Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.”

― John Lubbock, The Pleasures of Life