4.22.2011

It's a Small World After All.

   




Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.

-- Rachel Carson



The earth is what we all have in common.

-- Wendell Berry



You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau









If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

-- Joseph Wood Krutch





The care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.  To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.

-- Wendell Berry





The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge, for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

-- Marya Mannes





Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

-- Douglas Jerrold






It is indeed, after all, a small world . . .
  



Happy
Earth 
Day!








     

2 comments:

Leenie said...

All outstanding quotes. It's good to be reminded of the value of nature. I especially like the Rachel Carson words...

"Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life."...

What a great many problems would just go away if the hoards of us humans would just take a breath and look around and enjoy. After all--we all dwell among the beauties, we just have to LOOK.

Your stitchery so fittingly illustrates the point.

Allie said...

I LOVE that quote by Douglas Jerrold!

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