“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”

—Lao Tzu

“To be loved is to be known, and to be known is to be loved.” 

— Henri Nouwen

“If you spend enough time in the desert, you will hear it speak.” 

—Nnedi Okorafo

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”

—Lao Tzu

“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.”

— Audrey Hepburn

“We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness.”  

—Thich Nhat Hanh

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity."

—Simone Weil

“Farming is a profession of hope”

―Brian Brett

“We do not think ourselves into new ways of living; we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.”

—Richard Rohr

“Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, and you’ll start believing in it.”

— Jesse Owens

“In a real sense, all life is interrelated. All people are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.” 

—Martin Luther King Jr.

“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.”

— John Lennon

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves…”

—Rainer Maria Rilke

“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”

—Leonard Cohen

“Every time you spend money you’re casting a vote for the kind of world you want.”

—Anna Lappe

“We do not become wise by remembering what we already know; we become wise by allowing ourselves to be led.”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

“We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom.”

— E.O. Wilson

“Bless the ones who show up—awkwardly, imperfectly, beautifully. Their presence is a small miracle.”

— Kate Bowler

“Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.”

—W.S. Merwin