On the north Devon coast

"What will it take to become a society that praises those who care? That honors kindness more than success? That teaches children to love the earth more than accumulate its products? I suspect we will need to listen to different elders -- not the ones who promised wealth but the ones who taught compassion."  - Linda Hogan

"As a writer, I believe it is our task, our responsibility, to hold the mirror up to social injustice and to create a prayer of beauty."  - Terry Tempest Williams

"There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of bodies, of body on body, wind on snow, rain on trees, wave on stone. It is the language of dream, gesture, symbol, memory. We have forgotten this language. We do not even remember that it exists."  - Derrick Jensen (via Jonathan Carroll)

The speech of water,
the speech of earth,
the speech of mud
Are heard by those who listen with the heart.

- Rumi