"Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do."

Michel de Montaigne

February 28, 1533 - September 13, 1592

"The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful."

E. E. Cummings

October 14, 1894 - September 3, 1962

"I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes."

E. E. Cummings

October 14, 1894 - September 3, 1962

"I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God."

Alan Hovhaness

March 8, 1911 - June 21, 2000