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

"People will forget what you say, people will forget what you do, but people will never forget how you make them feel."

- Maya Angelou

"Admit something: Everyone you see, you say to them, 'Love me.' Of course, you do not do this out loud, otherwise someone would call the cops. Still, though, think about this, this great pull in us to connect. Why not become the one who lives with a full moon in each eye that is always saying, with that sweet moon vision, 'Love me."

- Hafez

"Man did not weave the web of life...he is merely a strand in that web...whatever he does to the web...he does to himself."

- Chief Seattle

"Gliding down the bike path on a Saturday morning, you whip by somebody peddling in the opposite direction and give each other a nod. For a moment it's like "Hey, we're both doing the same thing. Let's be friends for a second."

- Neil Pasricha

"There are people who come home from war and want to talk about the pain, but no one wants to listen; there are others who want to keep silent and repress the memories, and all their family and friends want is to talk about it. I call this the war veteran reintegration paradox."

- M.B. Dallocchio

"It is a blessing to be the color of the earth; do you know how often flowers confuse me for home?"

- Rupi Kaur

"For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart."

- Mary McLeod Bethune

"As long as there is poverty in the world I can never be rich, even if I have a billion dollars. As long as diseases are rampant and millions of people in this world cannot expect to live more than twenty-eight or thirty years, I can never be totally healthy even if I just got a good checkup at Mayo Clinic. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the way our world is made. No individual or nation can stand out boasting of being independent. We are interdependent."

- Martin Luther King III

"As long as we share the same sky and breathe the same air, we're still together."

- Donna Lynn Hope

"Can miles truly separate you from friends…If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?"

- Richard Bach

"Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."

- C.S. Lewis

"The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all."

- Wendell Berry

"The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway."

- Michael Pollan