Connection to Earth Quotes

"That's what sailing is, a dance, and your partner is the sea. And with the sea you never take liberties. You ask her, you don't tell her. You have to remember always that she's the leader, not you. You and your boat are dancing to her tune."

- Michael Morpurgo

""Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.""

- Paulo Coelho

"One flag, one land. One Heart, one hand. One nation, evermore."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The United States is the only country with a known birthday. All the rest began, they know not when, and grew into power, they know not how.... There is no "Republican," no "Democrat," on the Fourth of July, — all are Americans."

- James Gillespie Blaine

"Anybody can look at you. It’s quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see."

- John Green

"Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all."

- Erik H. Erikson

"There is no greater power than a community discovering what it cares about."

- Margaret Wheatley

"Life doesn’t make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all."

- Erik H. Erikson

"I found that with depression, one of the most important things you can realize is that you’re not alone. You’re not the first to go through it, you’re not gonna be the last to go through it."

- Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

"My favorite thing about the United States? Lots of Americans, one America."

- Val Saintsbury

"I got it from my mama."

- will.i.am

"In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry I cry and when you hurt I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods of tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life."

- Nicholas Sparks, "The Notebook"

"A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong."

- Brené Brown

"A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick."

- Brené Brown

"There can be no atom bomb potentially more powerful than the air tourist, charged with curiosity, enthusiasm, and goodwill, who can roam the four corners of the world, meeting in friendship and understanding the people of other nations and races."

- John Trapp

"Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal."

- John F. Kennedy

"We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically."

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

"We are never alone. We are all wolves howling to the same moon."

- Atticus

"We are all like one-winged angels. It is only when we help each other that we can fly."

- Luciano de Crescenzo

"It takes a whole village to raise a child."

- African Proverb

"The holiday reflects the best of African thought and practice in its reaffirmation of the dignity of the human person in community and culture, the well-being of family and community, the integrity of the environment and our kinship with it, and the rich resource and meaning of a people’s culture."

- Maulana Karenga

"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."

- Kahlil Gibran

"The water is your friend. You don’t have to fight with water, just share the same spirit as the water, and it will help you move."

- Alexandr Popov

"Give me five!"

"Hey there, stalker."

"Take a look out your window now. Although we may be apart at the moment we can both gaze up at the same moon. Good night."

"Sending you a virtual hug and a million sweet dreams. I can’t wait to see you again in the morning. Good night, my love."

"Good night, my love. Distance may separate us, but my heart is always with you."