Apiarian

"Were I to be the founder of a new sect,

I would call them Apiarians, and, after the example of the bee,

advise them to extract the honey of every sect."  

- Thomas Jefferson

"... the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface,

that the direct approach to reality is not without,

but within.

Touch life anywhere and you will touch universality

wherever you touch the earth."

~Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945)

"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting.

Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness,

but trailing clouds of glory do we come."

~William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

“I think having land and not ruining

it is the most beautiful art that

anybody could ever want.”

—Andy Warhol

"All Life has just one home, the earth,

and we as the dominant species must take care of it."

Dame Daphne Sheldrick.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star.

It is the poetry of Nature;

it is that which uplifts the spirit within us."

~ John Ruskin

“Sometimes kindness is stepping aside,

letting go of our need to be right

& just being happy for someone.”

― Sharon Salzberg

When one tugs at a single thing in nature he finds

it attached to the rest of the world.”

~John Muir

"Look, how the floor of heaven is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold;
There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st

but in his motion like an angel sings..."

~William Shakespeare (1564-1616)