“Perhaps to love is to learn to walk through this world. To learn to be silent like the oak and the linden of the fable. To learn to see. Your glance scattered seeds. It planted a tree. I talk because you shake its leaves.” — Octavio [...]
“The care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all, our most pleasing responsibility.” —Wendell Berry
“Let the mind be enlarged to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind.” — Francis Bacon
“Crimson stems in my palms Conduits through which shape And substance entered — Mapleness Only vaguely I sensed Some ephemeral Sap entering me” —Wendell Berry
“Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.” — Noam Chomsky
“To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown.” — Robert Bly
“Lovin' a free and feelin' spirit Of huggin' a tree when you get near it Diggin' the snow and the rain and the bright sunshine” —Tommy James
Yellow Birch Claiming Its Territory!/Photo Jim DeLellis “What is a forest but a city of nature's own, full of hardy and innocuous living things, where there is nothing dead and nothing made with the hands, but the citizens themselves are the houses and public monuments? There is [...]
“Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember nothing stays the same for long, not even pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.” — May Sarton
"Everything is blooming most recklessly…" —Rainer Maria Rilke