Quotes & Poetry

"It is only a little planet, but how beautiful it is.

-- Robinson Jeffers

"If one really loves nature, one can find beauty everywhere."

-- Vincent Van Gogh

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."

-- Anonymous

"Go out, go out I beg of you. And taste the beauty of the wild. Behold the miracle of the earth. With all the wonder of a child."

-- Enda Jaques

"Respect the old and cherish the young. Even insects, grass and trees you must not hurt."

-- Attr. Ko Hung

"We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves."

-- Colton

"Every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers; a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures."

-- Ellen Glasgow

"Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life."

-- Elizabeth Goudge