Great Quotes | Loving Nature's Garden

When I Was a Kid

“When I was a kid, I used to annoy my parents with questions like ‘How much does that mountain weigh?’ Age has failed to cure me of this terminal curiosity.”

Brett Dufur, The Complete Katy Trail Guidebook, 8th Edition, Pebble Publishing Inc, 2005

“Here were seas of grass sometimes taller than a horse and rider, carpets of wildflowers presenting a stunning spectrum of colors, and black, loamy soil that seemed endless… Nowhere on the planet was there a grassland complex like the midwestern tallgrass prairie.”

Tallgrass Prairie Wildflowers, A Falcon Guide, Doug Ladd and Frank Oberle, Nature [...]

Sixteen Things You Should Know About Life

“To see life as a whole – to observe what all life has in common – requires a shift in the way we normally look at things. We must look beyond the individual insect or tree or flower and seek a more panoramic perspective. We need to think as much about process as we do [...]

Montessori Great Lessons – all things are connected

“… all things are part of the universe and are connected with each other to form one whole unity. This idea helps the mind of the child to become fixed, to stop wandering in an aimless quest for knowledge. The child is satisfied, having found the universal center of self in all things.”

Maria [...]

Self-sufficiency is Not the Solution

“We do not think the solution to environmental crises is self-sufficiency, because such a condition is not possible even if it were desirable. If self-sufficient human communities exist at all, they are extremely rare. One might argue that no such community ever existed by interpreting ’self-sufficient’ to mean independent of other humans.”

The Integral [...]