“When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe ... The whole wilderness is unity and interrelation, is alive and familiar, full of humanity. The very stones seem talkative, sympathetic, brotherly.” TryingWholeSeemsScienceHumanityUniverseAlivePicksStonesUnityFamiliarWildernessSympatheticBrotherlyTalkative Author:John Muir
“The wilderness needs your whole attention.” NeedsWholeAttentionWildernessPrairiePanthers Author:Laura Ingalls Wilder
“Human beings any one of us, and our species as a whole are not all-important, not at the center of the world. That is the one essential piece of information, the one great secret, offered by any encounter with the woods or the mountains or the ocean or any wilderness or chunk of nature or patch of night sky.” WorldHumansImportantWholeNightHuman BeingsSecretPiecesSkyInformationMountainEssentialsOceanSpeciesWoodsEncountersWildernessPatchesNight SkyChunksCenter Of The World Book:The end of nature Source: The end of nature
“All earthly suns have their spots: the fair world itself has its wilderness. We cannot love the whole of most lovely things: but Christ Jesus is gold without alloy-light without darkness- glory without cloud. 'Yea, He is altogether lovely.'” WorldWholeLightJesusChristDarknessSunFocusGloryFairsGoldCloudsLovelySpotsWildernessLovely Things Book:Morning and Evening Source: Morning and Evening