D. H. Lawrence

Ah listen, for Silence is not lonely:

Imitate the magnificent trees

That speak no word of their rapture, but only

Breathe largely the luminous breeze. 

—D. H. Lawrence

Corot, Love Poems and Others

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The earth is not a dead body, but is inhabited by a spirit that is its life and soul.

All created things, minerals included, draw their strength from the earth spirit.

This spirit is life, it is nourished by the stars, and it gives nourishment to all the living things it shelters in its womb.

—Basilius Valentinus
15th Century Benedictine
monk and alchemist