It is a wholesome and necessary thing
for us to turn again to the earth
and in the contemplation of her beauties
to know of wonder and humility.
-Rachel Carson
for us to turn again to the earth
and in the contemplation of her beauties
to know of wonder and humility.
-Rachel Carson
Touch the earth,
feel the earth,
rest your spirit
in her solitary places.
-Henry Beston
My heart found its home long ago
in the beauty, mystery, order and disorder
of the flowering earth.
-Lady Bird Johnson
If we surrendered
to earth's intelligence
we could rise up rooted,
like trees.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
The virtues earth inspires are numerous:
acceptance, support, receptivity, modesty and perseverance.
-Deng Ming-Dao
Amelioration is one of the earth's words,
The earth neither lags nor hastens,
It has all attributes, growths, effects, latent in itself from the jump,
It is not half beautiful only,
defects and excrescences show just as much as perfections show...
The earth does not withhold, it is generous enough,
The truths of the earth continually wait,
they are not so conceal'd either,
They are calm, subtle, untransmissible by print,
They are imbued through all things conveying themselves willingly,
Conveying a sentiment and invitation...
The earth does not argue,
Is not pathetic, has no arrangements,
Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise,
Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable failures,
Closes nothing, refuses nothing, shuts none out,
Of all the powers, objects, states, it notifies, shuts none out...
The earth does not exhibit itself nor refuse to exhibit itself...
I swear the earth shall surely be complete
to him or her who shall be complete,
The earth remains jagged and broken
only to him or her who remains jagged and broken...
I swear there is no greatness or power
that does not emulate those of the earth,
There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate the
theory of the earth,
No politics, song, religion, behavior, or what not, is of account,
unless it compare with the amplitude of the earth,
Unless it face the exactness, vitality, impartiality,
rectitude of the earth.
-Walt Whitman
Earth, isn’t this what you want: to arise within us,
invisible? Isn’t it your dream
to be wholly invisible someday? - O Earth: invisible!
What, if not transformation, is your urgent command?
-Rainer Maria Rilke
-Deng Ming-Dao
Amelioration is one of the earth's words,
The earth neither lags nor hastens,
It has all attributes, growths, effects, latent in itself from the jump,
It is not half beautiful only,
defects and excrescences show just as much as perfections show...
The earth does not withhold, it is generous enough,
The truths of the earth continually wait,
they are not so conceal'd either,
They are calm, subtle, untransmissible by print,
They are imbued through all things conveying themselves willingly,
Conveying a sentiment and invitation...
The earth does not argue,
Is not pathetic, has no arrangements,
Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise,
Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable failures,
Closes nothing, refuses nothing, shuts none out,
Of all the powers, objects, states, it notifies, shuts none out...
The earth does not exhibit itself nor refuse to exhibit itself...
I swear the earth shall surely be complete
to him or her who shall be complete,
The earth remains jagged and broken
only to him or her who remains jagged and broken...
I swear there is no greatness or power
that does not emulate those of the earth,
There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate the
theory of the earth,
No politics, song, religion, behavior, or what not, is of account,
unless it compare with the amplitude of the earth,
Unless it face the exactness, vitality, impartiality,
rectitude of the earth.
-Walt Whitman
Earth, isn’t this what you want: to arise within us,
invisible? Isn’t it your dream
to be wholly invisible someday? - O Earth: invisible!
What, if not transformation, is your urgent command?
-Rainer Maria Rilke
Earth. till the end, will be Herself.
-W. H. Auden
