He who plants trees loves others besides himself.
-English proverb
Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.
-Karle Wilson Baker
Category: Trees and Flowing Water
Trees and Flowing Water #2
I achieve a shining serenity if I reach the edge of a body of water.
-Kurt Vonnegut
All his life he was to find the sight and sound of flowing water one of the greatest solacements of grief.
-Elizabeth Goudge
The Dean’s Watch
Trees and Flowing Water #3
The cure for anything is salt water- sweat, tears, or the sea.
-Isak Dineson
Trees and Flowing Water #4
Be at peace now and let the tide carry you into calm water. That is all you have to do for the moment.
-Elizabeth Goude
The Dean’s Watch
Trees and Flowing Water #5
New places offer more than geographical change. They also offer a mental distance from the recent past that allows you to get your life in perpective.
-Sarah Harrell Banks
To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but not hurried.
-George Santayana
Trees and Flowing Water #6
The need is not for humanity to learn to manage for the planet, which can manage quite well without us. The need is for humanity to learn to manage itself.
-Robert C. Cowen
What are the environmental problems in your area? What’s being done about them? How are local people encouraged or required to minimize their effect on this planet?
Trees and Flowing Water #7
It is a position not to be controverted that the earth, in its natural and uncultivated state, was… to be the COMMON PROPERTY OF THE HUMAN RACE.
-Thomas Paine
Agrarian Justice
Trees and Flowing Water #8
Mountains are the scribblings of time on the surface of the land…. Here man does not matter, does not count…The steam, the trout, the mountains, go on with or without me, dancing, as they have for so long, to time’s madder music-rhythms older than interstellar dust.
-Harry Middleton
On the Spine of Time: An Angler’s Love of the Smokies
Have you ever felt you were just another part of nature? Or, in Middleton’s words, “just another expression of life, neither feared, envied, acknowledged, or especially needed?”
You might have been on a river, lake, or ocean, or in mountains, woods, a desert, or open fields. Or perhaps you were caught in severe weather. Describe the experience.