The dance of the palm trees, the oceans calling, the first rays of sun and heaven is here. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife

People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Natures memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely. – Henry Cantwell Wallace

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself. – Henry David Thoreau

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn. – C. Northcote Parkinson

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you its going to be a butterfly. – R. Buckminster Fuller