Michael

“Don’t be one way, Wishing for another, Only to arrive at the new way, Wishing for the first.”
― Scott Stillman, Wilderness, The Gateway To The Soul: Spiritual Enlightenment Through Wilderness

“The time has come for acts of reverence and restraint on behalf of the Earth. We have arrived at the Hour of Land.”
― Terry Tempest Williams, The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks

“I return to the wilderness to remember what I have forgotten, that the world can be wholesome and beautiful, that the harmony and integrity of ecosystems at peace is a mirror to what we have lost.”
― Terry Tempest Williams, The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks

“If citizenship is a matter of shared beliefs, then I believe in the democracy of species. If citizenship means an oath of loyalty to a leader, then I choose the leader of the trees. If good citizens agree to uphold the laws of the nation, then I choose natural law, the law of reciprocity, of regeneration, of mutual flourishing.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants