“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. One fancies a heart like our own must be beating in every crystal and cell, and we feel like stopping to speak to the plants and animals as friendly fellow-mountaineers. Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go.” FeelsTryingHeartUniverseSpeakAnimalEnvironmentPoetHigherPicksFellowsPlantCellsFancyVisibleFriendlyStoppingEnthusiasticCrystalsPlants And Animals Book:My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition Source: My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition
“The poet's perspective of life, the musician's sense of harmony, the artist's eye of proportion and relationships ~ these are all shared by healers, especially the herbal healer who works with plants, which are the pure creative expression of nature and the healing process.” EyeArtistProcessHealingCreativePoetExpressionPerspectivePureMusicianHarmonyPlantProportionHealerCreative ExpressionHealing Process Author:Michael Tierra
“I have more questions than answers in this world as do most poets and writers. The field of memory we exist in is absolutely encompassing and is both a question and answer. It is memory that provides the heart with impetus, fuels the brain, and propels the corn plant from seed to fruit.” WorldHeartMemoriesAnswersBrainFieldsThis WorldPoetPlantFruitSeedsFuelCornQuestions And AnswersImpetus Author:Joy Harjo
“Poet, forger of ideals, dreamer among the possibilities of life, prophet of the millenium, do you get impatient with the prosaic life around you -- the dulness, and the earthliness, and the brutishness of men? Fret not. Go forward into the realm which stretches before you; climb the highest mountain you can reach, and plant a cross there. The nations will come up to it some day. Work for immortality if you will; then wait for it. If your own age fail to recognize you, a coming age will not.” IfsMenAgeNationsWaitingFailingPossibilityPoetMountainHighestIdealsCrossesPlantCome UpImmortalityRealmsProphetClimbsDreamerImpatient Author:J. G. Holland
“The logic of the poet - that is, the logic of language or the experience itself - develops the way a living organism grows: it spreads out towards what it loves, and is heliotropic, like a plant.” WayLanguageGrowsPoetLogicPlantSpreadOrganismsLiving Organisms Author:Thomas Merton