the brighter the world you live in will be."
-Shakti Gawain
"For once you have tasted flight
you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards,
for there you have been and there you will long to return."
-Leonardo da Vinci
"Adopt the pace of nature, for her secret is patience."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Michelangelo said of external beauty,
'It is the frail and weary weed,
in which God dresses the soul,
which he has called into time.'
The influence of the forms and actions in nature,
is so needful to man!
To the body and mind which have been cramped
by noxious work or company,
nature is medicinal and restores their tone.
The tradesman, the attorney comes out of the din
and craft of the street, and sees the sky and the woods,
and is a man again. In their eternal calm, he finds himself.
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon.
We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough,
but in other hours, nature satisfies by its loveliness,
and without any mixture of corporeal benefit.
I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop
over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise,
with emotions which an angel might share.
The long slender bars of cloud float
like fishes in the sea of crimson light.
From the earth, as a shore,
I look out into that silent sea.
I seem to partake its rapid transformations:
the active enchantment reaches my dust,
and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson