The City’s going to

The City’s going to be very very beautiful! Its going to be like a beautiful beautiful park in some places, and there in the lower level where the river flows right through the City there’s going to be these beautiful trees growing on both sides, fruit trees with 12 different kinds of fruit, a different … Read more

A man has made

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit. D. Elton Trueblood

A tree is beautiful,

A tree is beautiful, but what’s more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees. Forests create climate, climate influences peoples’ character, and so on and so forth. There can be neither civilization nor happiness if forests crash down under … Read more

Thoughts can create such

Thoughts can create such a barrier that even if you are standing before a beautiful flower, you will not be able to see it. Your eyes are covered with layers of thought. To experience the beauty of the flower you have to be in a state of meditation, not in a state of mentation. You … Read more

There is something infinitely

There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
Rachel Carson

Those who contemplate the

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
Rachel Carson

Those who contemplate the

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.
Rachel Carson

Trees are the earth’s

Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Rabindranath Tagore