Connection to Earth Quotes

"All of the people who work in the kitchen with me go out into the forests and on to the beach. It's a part of their job. If you work with me you will often be starting your day in the forest or on the shore because I believe foraging will shape you as a chef."

- Rene Redzepi

"There's a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family."

- Gordon Ramsay

"For me, cooking is an expression of the land where you are and the culture of that place."

- Wolfgang Puck

"You can kiss your family and friends goodbye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you."

- Frederick Buechner

"Because brothers don't let each other wander in the dark alone."

- Jolene Perry

"Brothers aren't simply close; brothers are knit together."

- Robert Rivers

"One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help."

- Epicurus

"The moment I decided to follow instead of lead, I discovered the joys of becoming part of a small child’s world."

- Janet Gonzalez-Mena

"Photography is a major force in explaining man to man."

- Edward Steichen

"Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees."

- Marcel Proust

"The way people come into your life when you need them, it's wonderful and it happens in so many ways. It's like having an angel. Somebody comes along and helps you get right."

- Stevie Ray Vaughan

"Children don’t say, ‘I had a hard day. Can we talk?’ They say, ‘Will you play with me?’"

- Lawrence Cohen

"Music is the universal language of mankind"

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"'Psychotherapy is a cyclical process from isolation into relationship.' It is cyclical because the patient, in terror of existential isolation, relates deeply and meaningfully to the therapist and then, strengthened by this encounter, is led back again to a confrontation with existential isolation."

- Yalom

"The need to be closely related to others is as basic as any biological need and is, in the light of the prolonged period of helpless infancy, equally necessary to survival."

- Yalom

"Our relations with one another are like a stone arch, which would collapse if the stones did not mutually support each other, and which is upheld in this very way."

- Seneca

"When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand."

- Karl A. Menniger

"Having a little brother means having a partner in crime and adventure for life."

- Unknown

"Brothers are the best kind of friends. Thanks for always being there."

- Unknown

"No matter where life takes us, you will always be my first and best friend, brother."

- Unknown

"A brother's bond is unbreakable and forever. You mean the world to me."

- Unknown

"No one understands me quite like you, brother. You are my confidant and friend."

- Unknown

"You are my first friend, my best friend, and my forever friend, brother."

- Unknown

"You're my childhood partner in crime and lifelong best friend!"

- Unknown

"A cowboy’s strength comes from the land he loves."

"Near or far, we're only separated by car. As long as we exist, there is no distance across which our family can't persist."

"No matter where we each stand, together we can look upon the same sun, the same moon, and the same sky, so we are forever one family."

"You can't see air, but you need it to breathe, and it's always there. Likewise, your family may not be in sight, but we need each other and will always be there."

"Teaching English is about not only imparting language but also sharing culture and human connection."

- Unknown