The poetry of the earth is never dead. ~John Keats

“The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.”--John Muir

Climb up on some hill at sunrise. Everybody needs perspective once in a while, and you'll find it there. ~Robb Sagendorph

The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man. ~Author Unknown

Who has not found the heaven below
Will fail of it above.
God's residence is next to min,
His furniture is love.--Emily Dickinson

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.
--John Muir

For everything there is a season,
And a time for every matter under heaven:
--From, Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

Very few people really see things unless they've had someone in early life who made them look at things. And name them too. But the looking is primary, the focus.--Denise Levertov