“On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.…Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they wil…”— John Muir, amazon.com
“Look, the small village spreads out among meadows, relaxed. Quiet it’s here. From afar comes the noise of the mill-wheels revolving, but the day’s decline church bells convey to my ear.”— Friedrich Hölderlin, amazon.com