The Elders Speak:
About Rocks and Terra Firma
You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin.
Chief Seattle
The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit,...
Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Spring
If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ...Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long.
Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of Americ
Mud is the most poetical thing in the world.
R. H. Blyth
It is apparent that no lifetime is long enough in which to explore the resources of a few square yards of ground.
Alice M. Coats
The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest.
Charles Dudley Warner, My Summer in a Garden
You are always picking up odd-shaped stones, pebbles and fossils, saying that you do this
because it pleases you, but I know better. Deep inside you there must be an awareness of the
rock power, of the spirits in them, otherwise you would not pick them up and fondle them as you do.
Lame Deer, Lame Deer: Seeker of Visions
To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.
Mahatma Gandhi
One's own landscape comes in time to be a sort of outlying part of himself; he has sowed himself broadcast upon it, and it reflects his own moods and feelings; he is sensitive to the verge of the horizon: cut those trees, and he bleeds; mar those hills, and he suffers.
John Burroughs
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
Henry David Thoreau
It is only when we are aware of the earth and of the earth as poetry that we truly live.
Henry Beston, Herbs and the Earth
Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee.
Biblical proverb
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