Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

FRANZ KAFKA

The Earth is what we all have in common.

Wendell Berry

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

KHALIL GIBRAN

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, it's unlikely you will step up and take responsibility for making it so. If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope.

NOAM CHOMSKY

those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Winston Churchill

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

ISAAC NEWTON

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.

GARY SNYDER

When you actually talk to each other, you realize how complex people are. They don't fall into nice, neat categories...we all feel better about ourselves and the country when we have conversations with people who see things differently than we do.

Paul Norris, Co-Chair of Braver Angels' Red Caucus

A light heart lives long.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.

NELSON MANDELA