Grey Pine

“When I'm writing a first draft I'm constantly reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.”
― Jordan Peele

“The key to stopping the environmental apocalypse is not science but love. For decades now we have been staring at the scientific reports. They have not sufficiently inspired us to change our apocalyptic reality. But where science has failed, faith can succeed. We must help humanity rediscover [Mother Earth], their loving parent, the living world that sustains them. We must help them feel her love just as we show them how that love can be returned. And it can begin by gathering people around two simple questions: Where were you in nature when you experienced a vision of such beauty that it took your breath away? And how did that make you feel? If you can answer those two questions, you are on your way to meeting the Mother you may never have known before.”
― Steven Charleston

“Writing is neither vibrant life nor docile artifact but a text that would put all its money on the hope of suggestion. Come with me into the field of sunflowers is a better line than anything you will find here, and the sunflowers themselves far more wonderful than any words about them.”
― Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays

“... the earth is divine, because man did not make it. We are here, part in the creation. We cannot escape it. We are under obligation to take part and to do our best, living with each other and with all the creatures. We may not know the full plan, but that does not alter the relation ... We shall put our dominion into the realm of morals ... If God create the earth, so is the earth hallowed; and if it is hallowed, so must we deal with it devotedly and with care that we do not despoil it, and mindful of our relations to all beings that live on it ... The sacredness to us of the earth is intrinsic and inherent. It lies in our necessary relationship in the duty imposed upon us to have dominion, and to exercise ourselves even against our own interests. We may not waste that which is not ours.”
― Liberty Hyde Bailey, The Holy Earth: Toward a New Environmental Ethic