Balance: Rocks
"The universe is sacred. You cannot improve it. If you try to change it, you will ruin it. If you try to hold it, you will lose it."
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Tao Te Ching |
Inspirational Ocean
"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks."
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John Muir |
Evolution
"In the broadest sense, evolution is merely change."
- Douglas Futuyma |
Beauty: Lilypads
"Surrender yourself humbly; then you can be trusted to care for all things. Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things."
- Tao Te Ching |
Goodness: Waterfall
"The highest goodness is like water. Water benefits all things and does not compete. It stays in the lowly places which others despise. Therefore it is near The Eternal."
- Tao Te Ching |
John Muir Photo with Quote
"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves."
- John Muir |
Enlightenment
"Express yourself completely then become quiet. Open yourself to heaven and earth and be like the forces of nature: when the wind blows, there is only the wind; when it rains there is only rain; when the cloud pass the sun promises to shine. If you open yourself to insight, you are at one with insight and you can use it completely. Open yourself to heaven and earth, then trust your natural responses and everything will fall into place"
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Lao Tsu |
A Nation That Destroys
"A nation that destroys its' soil destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people."
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Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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History Through Literature - Grapes of Wrath
"In the morning the dust hung like fog, and the sun was as red as ripe new blood. All day the dust sifted down, and the next day it sifted down. An even blanket covered the earth. It settled on the corn, piled up on the tops of the fence posts, piled up on the wires; it settled on roofs, blanketed the weeds and trees."
- from The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck |