"If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees." —Rainer Maria Rilke

“Keep close to Nature’s heart…and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or  spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.” — John Muir Photo taken in the mountains of North Georgia, USA

“Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.” ― Steven Pressfield

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.   Ralph Waldo Emerson   The Conduct of Life

“Spring flew swiftly by, and summer came; and if the village had been beautiful at first, it was now in the full glow and luxuriance of its richness…. The earth had donned her mantle of brightest green; and shed her richest perfumes abroad. It was the prime and vigour of the year; all things were glad and flourishing.” --Charles Dickens It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us...  Charles Dickens