Connection to Earth Quotes

"Although I deeply love oceans, deserts, and other wild landscapes, it is only mountains that beckon me with that sort of painful magnetic pull to walk deeper and deeper into their beauty."

- Victoria Erickson

"Women are the glue that holds everything together."

- Jada Pinkett Smith

"We change people through conversation, not through censorship."

- Jay-Z

"A baby is like the beginning of all things: wonder, hope a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its earth to concrete, babies are almost the only remaining link in nature, with the natural world of living things from which we spring."

- Eda J. Leshan

"We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another."

- Luciano de Crescenzo

"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 going to be the last to go through it."

- Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

"Regardless of who you are or what you do for a living or where you come from, it doesn’t discriminate. We all kind of go through it."

- Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

"I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say, ‘he feels deeply, he feels tenderly."

- Vincent van Gogh

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends"

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one destiny, affects all indirectly."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

""We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.""

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"We have our own, unspoken language—a look that makes one of us fall on the floor laughing or the slight inflection in our voice that conveys everything. It is the ability to prod laughter and love no matter how much your heart might hurt. Someone who sees you exactly as you are and thinks that is enough. Someone who will walk next to you always."

- Barbara Bush