To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves. - Mahatma Gandhi
"Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are." - Gretel Ehrlich
"What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they d
o not enter into our daily lives?" –E.M. Forster
"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts." - Rachel Carson
“To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure, is the most perfect refreshment.” – Jane Austen
"Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, wi
th Nature herself." –Henry David Thoreau
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.” – John Keats
"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." –John Muir
“If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence, we could rise up rooted, like trees.” – Rainer Maria Rilke