In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground. A time when we have to shed our fear and give hope to each other. That time is now.
– Wangari Maathai
Let’s all go forward to work together, respecting each other – respecting! I see this miracle: the miracle of a desert that becomes a forest.
– Pope Francis
If we throw mother nature out the window, she comes back in the door with a pitchfork.
-Masanobu Fukuoka
Heaven is a place below our feet as well as above our head.
– Henry David Thoreau
The pod-producing trees, like the honey locust, have mobile leaves that open and close. At night and on cloudy days the leaves are closed. They open flat to receive the sun.
– Diana Beresford-Kroeger
There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.
– Emily Carr
Because of the finger point, I saw the moon.
That moon became the pivot of my heart.
– Han Shan, Cold Mountain Poems