Air Quote by John Muir

“Our flesh-and-bone tabernacle seems transparent as glass to the beauty about us, as if truly an inseparable part of it, thrilling with the air…

— John Muir

We are in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us…How glorious…

— John Muir

“You must know, my loved one, that there are beings in the elements which almost appear like mortals, and which rarely allow themselves to…

— Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué

“Surrounded by stone, this body of mine is seen in the dim light for what it is, fragile and brief. The water closes, seamless,…

— Linda Hogan

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and…

— Gretel Ehrlich

“ORGANIC LIFE beneath the shoreless waves Was born and nurs'd in Ocean's pearly caves; First, forms minute, unseen by spheric glass, Move on the…

— Erasmus Darwin

“Finally when he climbed below deck after dark, wondering where his dinner was, perhaps with a storm come up and rough seas and blinding…

— Stanley Crawford

Its from the deep waters that we come. And we are heartfelt and treacherous like those waters. We come with an unflinching devotion to…

— Lisa Bonet

“Woven into our lives is the very fire from the stars and genes from the sea creatures, and everyone, utterly everyone, is kin in…

— Elizabeth A. Johnson

We have come by curious ways To the Light that holds the days; We have sought in haunts of fear For that all-enfolding sphere:…

— Alfred Noyes

“We are here to witness the creation and abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each thing gets noticed. Together we…

— Annie Dillard

Beneath our feet a fairy pathway flows, The grass still glitters in the summer breeze, The dusky wood, and distant copse appear, And that…

— Robert Montgomery