"I touch the water,
and the things
that are born
in its unfathomable peace
go up, soft and slow, toward the clarity
of the earth."

Pablo NerudaOde to the Earth (from Elemental Odes)


"The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship." - Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The earth offers gift after gift—life after life—and asks for nothing in return.
That the earth gives freely to us, without expectation of return, is, to me,
the closest thing to grace I have ever encountered." - Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

"I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,
If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles." - Song of Myself by Walt Whitman

“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.” Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

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