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

Alan Hovhaness

March 8, 1911 - June 21, 2000