“And we danced / with tall grass, wind, and sunrise, drove the next day a two-lane that slid / like a lover across the plain.”— Joe Wilkins, amazon.com
“How her own body warmed as the world warmed, / how like riding home in the whole-sky spill of spring rain / there was no clean line between her and it.”— Joe Wilkins, amazon.com
“You’ll find out it’s little savors and little things that count more than big ones. A walk on a spring morning is better than an eighty-mile ride in a hopped-up car, you know why? Because it’s full of flavors, full of a lot of things growing.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, it's our own true nature.”— Tara Brach, amazon.com
“Woods are filled with the music of birds, and all Nature is laughing under the glorious influence of Summer”— Charles Lanman, books.google.ro
“A dog can be a living work of art, a constant reminder of the exquisite design and breathtaking detail of nature, beauty on four paws.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.com
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“Suddenly I had a flash of insight: I am a monster, I realized, a monster that wants to stalk through the woods, free and alone, and cannot even bear so much as the touch of a branch on its skin.”— Marlen Haushofer, amazon.com
“So, now I shall talk every night. To myself. To the moon. I shall walk, as I did tonight, jealous of my loneliness, in the blue-silver of the cold moon, shining brilliantly on the drifts of fresh-fallen snow, with the myriad sparkles. I talk to myself and look at the dark trees, blessedly neutral. S…”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“It had to do with how it felt to be in the wild. With what it was like to walk for miles with no reason other than to witness the accumulation of trees and meadows, mountains and deserts, streams and rocks, rivers and grasses, sunrises and sunsets. The experience was powerful and fundamental. It see…”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“I believe there is a difference between intrinsic human nature— which I agree does not change, and the aspects of human nature we routinely express, which can and do change.”— Al Gore, amazon.com
“She found this foolishly exciting, that it was raining where she was and it was not raining where he was, only minutes from her, and so she waited, with impatience, with a charged delight, until they could both see the rain together.”— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, amazon.com
“The trees like lungs filling with air My sister, the mean one, pulling my hair”— Jeffrey Eugenides, amazon.com
“In the flush of love's light we dare be brave And suddenly we see that love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.”— Maya Angelou, poemhunter.com
“There is a place where the sidewalk ends And before the street begins, And there the grass grows soft and white, And there the sun burns crimson bright, And there the moon-bird rests from his flight To cool in the peppermint wind.”— Shel Silverstein, amazon.com
“It is possible that Athena, in fact, knows I am female. Female octopuses, like female humans, possess estrogen; she could be tasting and recognizing mine. Octopuses can taste with their entire bodies, but this sense is most exquisitely developed in their suckers. Athena's is an exceptionally intimat…”— Sy Montgomery, amazon.com