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