“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go out and do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

— Thomas Berry

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.”

— John Muir

“When I rise up
let me rise up joyful
like a bird
When I fall
let me fall without regret
like a leaf”

— Wendell Berry

“The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.”

— His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama