The Elders Speak:
On The Earth

Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places.
Henry Beston

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons.
It is to grow in the open air, and to eat and sleep with the earth.
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

Smile O voluptuous coolbreathed earth!
Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees!
Earth of departed sunset! Earth of the mountains misty-topt!
Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon just tinged with blue!
Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!
Earth of the limpid gray of clouds brighter and clearer for my sake!
Far-swooping elbowed earth! Rich apple-blossomed earth!
Smile, for your lover comes!
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
Jules Renard

If we do not permit the Earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food either.
Joseph Wood Krutch

There is no clear distinction anywhere on the Earth's surface between living and nonliving matter. There is merely a hierarchy of intensity going from the 'material' environment of the rocks and the atmosphere [clouds] to the living cells.
James Lovelock, What is Gaia?

Paint me a picture of the landscape.
Dance me the dance of the waves.
Sing me of the legends of the river.
Tell me the story of the sky.
Author Unknown

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