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PART ONE (STEPS ONE THROUGH THREE)

"Our little garden of life, such a charming, fairy-like spot"

From "Evergreens" by Jerome K. Jerome

"Blossom the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels."

Said by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The stars pluck from their orbs too, And crowd them in my budget; And whether I'm a roaring boy, Let all the nation judge it."

From "I'll Sail Upon The Dog-Star" by Thomas Durfey.

"Canis Major and its neighboring constellation, Canis Minor, the Little Dog, appear in a number of myths. One legend has the two dogs sitting patiently under a table at which the Twins are dinning. The faint stars that can be seen scattered in the sky between Canis Minor and Gemini are the crumbs the Twins have been feeding to the animals."

From "Home Reference Library: Astronomy."

"Insanity is often the logic of an overtaxed mind"

Said by Oliver Wendell Holmes

PART TWO (STEPS FOUR THROUGH SIX)

"Is there no way out of the mind?"

Said by Sylvia Plath

"And I looked up into the hazy sky, Black clouds in the distance, Black clouds overhead,"

From "Black Clouds" by Terence Brame

"Memory is a capricious and arbitrary creature. You never can tell what pebble she will pick from the shore of life to keep among her treasures, or what inconspicuous flower of the field she will preserve as the symbol of Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

She has her own scale of values for these mementoes, and knows nothing of the market price of precious stones or costly splendor of rare orchids. The thing that pleases her is the thing that she will hold fast. And yet I do not doubt that the most important things are always the best remembered; only we must learn the real importance of what we see and hear in the world is to be measured at last by its meaning, its significance, its intimacy with the heart of our heart and the life of our life. And when we find a little token of the past very safely and imperishably kept among our recollections, we must believe that memory has made no mistake. It is because that little thing has entered into our experience most deeply, that it stays with us and we cannot lose it.

You have forgotten many a famous scene that you traveled far too look upon. You cannot clearly recall the sublime peak of Mount Blanc, the roaring curve of Niagara, the vast dome of St. Peter's. The music of Patti's crystalline voice has left no distant echo in your remembrance, and the blossoming of the century-plant is dimmer than the shadow of a dream. But there is a nameless valley among the hills where you can still trace every curve of the steam, and see the foam bells floating on the pool below the bridge, and the long moss wavering in the current. There is a rustic singing of a girl passing through the fields at sunset, that still repeats its far-off cadence in your listening ears.

There is a small flower trembling on its stem in some hidden nook beneath the open sky, that never withers through all the changing years; the wind passes over it, but it is never gone - it abides forever in your soul, an amaranthine blossom of beauty and truth."

"Memories" by Henry Van Dyke

"A boy's will is the winds will"

From"The Haven Of Character" by Henry Van Dyke

"Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the end of the day saying, " I will try again tomorrow."

Said by Mary Anne Radmacher

"Lichen, ivy, and moss, keep evergreen the trees, That stand half-flayed and dying, And the dead trees on their knees"

From "The Hollow Wood" by Edward Thomas

My Mother said that I never should, Play with the gypsies in the wood; The wood was dark; The grass was green;"

From"My Mother Said" - Poet Unknown

"The leaves lie thick upon the ground. It's there I love to kick my way, And hear the crisp and crashing sound."

From"Beech Leaves" by "James Reeves"

"I went down a narrow road, and I lost my cap. The firefly found it. Firefly, firefly, give me back my cap!"

From"The Firefly" - A tradition poem from Italy

"A bee, a living bee, at the windowglass, trying to get out, doomed, it can't understand."

An Untitled Poem by Stan Rice from "Pig's Progress" (1976)

PART THREE (STEPS SEVEN THROUGH NINE)

"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools."

From "Macbeth" by Shakespeare

"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."

Said by Oscar Wilde

"The windows of my soul I throw wide open to the sun."

Said by John Greenleaf Whittier

"For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams-"

From "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe

"Drugs are a bet with your mind."

Said by Jim Morrison

"Silence is the true friend that never betrays"

Said by Confucious

PART THREE (STEPS TEN THROUGH TWELVE)

"The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."

Said by Norman Cousins

"Yesterday a child came out to wonder/ Caught a dragonfly inside a jar/ Fearful when the sky was full of thunder/ And tearful at the falling of a star."

From "The Circle Game" by Joni Mitchell

"Names, dates, places - the interior scrapbook of an entire life-fade into mists of non-recognition."

Said by Matt Clark

"Once we had the words. Ox and Falcon. Plow. There was clarity. Savage as horns curved. We lived in stone rooms. We hung our hair out the windows and up it climbed the men. A garden behind the ears, the curls. On each hill a king of that hill. At night the threads were pulled out of the tapestries. The unravelled men screamed. All moons revealed. We had the words."

"The Words Once" by Stan Rice from "Whiteboy" (1976)

"Here come real stars to fill the upper skies,/ And here on earth come emulating flies,/ That though they never equal stars in size,/ (And they were never really stars at heart)/ Achieve at times a very star-like start./ Only, of course, they can't sustain the part."

" Fireflies In The Garden" by Robert Frost