St. Hildegard of Bingen

"There is the Music of Heaven in all things and we have forgotten how to hear it until we sing."

John Muir

"I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in."

Henry David Thoreau

"As a single footstep will not make a path on earth,
So a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.
To make a deep physical path,
We walk again and again.
To make a deep mental path,
We must think over and over
The kind of thoughts we wish
To dominate our lives.

Philip Gully

When dignity is all you have, if you are poor, if you are of low estate, and dignity is all you have,then loss of dignity is everything.

Any choice we make that robs someone of their dignity isn't the right choice.  Any choice that makes a person feel less than human, that leads to the diminishment of another person, is the wrong choice.

William Stafford

"A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as she is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things she would not have thought of if she had not started to say them."

John O'Donohue

"In modern times landscape is seen as property...real estate. The ancestors saw it as Divine Presence."

Thomas Merton

"It is true, political problems are not solved by love and mercy, but the world of politics is not the only world, and unless political decisions rest on a foundation of something better and higher than politics, they can never do any good for humanity."

Walt Whitman

"The quality of Being is the lesson of Nature."

Rachel Linner

"What we say about Jesus determines how we act, and the litany of our actions eventually becomes what we say about ourselves."

Henry David Thoreau

"Silence alone is worthy to be heard."