“We have always held the land above the one who rules it.”
“The world does not need words. It articulates itself in sunlight, leaves, and shadows. The stones on the path are no less real for lying uncatalogued and uncounted. The fluent leaves speak only the dialect of pure being.”
“Once you blink your eyes you will probably miss the moment to see the beauty of this world.”
“A mountaintop is not simply an elevation, but an island, a world within a world, a place out of place.”
“It s happening, just from the warming of the sun, the road and green praire farmland and buffeting wind coming together. And soon it is nothing but beautiful warmth and wind and speed and sun down the empty road. The last chills of the morning are thawed by the warm air. Wind and more sun and more smooth road.”
“You are not helping the planet, you are not helping nature, you are the planet, you are nature, you are helping yourself”
“I m beginning to wonder about trees. Along avenues, on each side, they seem to curve, reach out to each other, or entwine...Whats that all about? - Who told them to do that?...”
“The Wind Increases The harried earth is swept; the trees; the tulip s bright tips sidle and toss - Loose your love to flow - Blow! Good Christ, what is a poet - if any exists? A man whose words will bite their way home - being actual, having the form of motion at each twigtip upon the tortured body of thought; gripping the ground a way to the last leaftip.”
“New worlds await us! Trembling with fear!”
“Soul, nature and god are one in itself.”
“People who are lovers of nature are the most amazing and real people in this world.”
“حتى كان يُخيَّل إليهم أحيانًا أن الفضاء الذي بين أيديهم إنما هو معبدٌ مقدسٌ يصلون لله في أية بقعةٍ من بقاعه شاءوا، ويرون لله في أي مطلع من مطالعه أرادوا، وكأن الطبيعة بين أيديهم إنجيلُ مفتوح تقوم فيه الآيات المنظورة مقام الآيات المتلوة، والبراهين الحسية مقام البراهين التوفيقية المقروءة”
“An unfurling leaf is one of nature s greatest gifts. The present and the wrapping are one. And best of all, it self unwraps slowly revealing its mysterious beauty.”
“There is a that courses through this land, beneath the rocks and trees. This power was not meant for us, but we feel it in our hearts and in our bones. It bends us to its will as the wind bends the branch. We flutter, sway and break at it s will.”
“I often find God’s great wisdom outside of His Holy word in the world around me being often strange and wonderful at the same time teaching me that nature has a similarity with the grace of God.”
“much of the peat sold in garden centres is now imported from other countries, notably from Ireland, Estonia, Latvia and Finland. Estonia is a wild and unspoiled country where bears and wolves still roam, and it is sad to reflect that great chunks of it are now being dug up so that we can grow begonias.”
“We are all complicit, and farmer-bashing is not going to help. We need farmers, more than any other profession. If lawyers, politicians, bankers, university academics or salesmen were to somehow disappear tomorrow, I think the world would muddle through pretty well. Some things might even get better. But if farmers were to vanish, most of us would be dead within a year.”