"Every morning the world is created. All has been consecrated. The creatures in the forest know this, the earth does, the seas do, the clouds know as does the heart full of love.

Remain true to the earth. The earth itself is the living scripture to be shared by all.

It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in contemplation of her beauties to know the wonder of humility. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. We belong to the ground. It is our power. And we must stay close to it. Or maybe we will get lost.

We evolved as creatures knitted into the fabric of nature, and without its intimate truths, we can find ourselves unraveling. Our hearts, away from nature, become hard; lack of respect for growing living things, soon leads to lack of respect for humans, too."

--- The Book of the World