Our origins are of the earth. and so there is in us a deeply seated response to the natural universe, which is part of our humanity. - Rachel Carson

contemplating the teeming life of the shore, we have an uneasy sense of the communication of some universal truth that lies just beyond our grasp... the ultimate mystery of life itself. - Rachel Carson

The individual atoms.. cycled through wind and water and soil, cycled trhough generations and generations of living creatures and minds, will repeat and connect and make a whole out of parts... although impermanent, they make a permance. Although scattered, they make a totality. - Alan Lightman

Love the earth and sun and the animals.. have patience and indulgence toward the people.. re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul. - Walt Whitman

You must be vulnerable to be sensitive to reality. And to me being vulnerable is just another way of saying that one has nothing more to lose. - Bob Dylan

People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them. - Bob Dylan