„Am I not among the early risersand the long-distance walkers? Have I not stood, amazed, as I considerthe perfection of the morning starabove the peaks of the houses, and the crowns of the treesblue in the first light?Do I not see how the trees tremble, as thoughsheets of water flowed over themthough it is only wind, that common thing,free to everyone, and everything?“

— Mary Oliver

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„I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything — other people, trees, clouds.“
— Mary Oliver
„When I first enjoyed this superb view, one glowing April day, from the summit of the Pacheco Pass, the Central Valley, but little trampled or ploughed as yet, was one furred, rich sheet of golden compositae, and the luminous wall of the mountains shone in all its glory. Then it seemed to me the Sierra should be called not the Nevada, or Snowy Range, but the Range of Light. And after ten years spent in the heart of it, rejoicing and wondering, bathing in its glorious floods of light, seeing the sunbursts of morning among the icy peaks, the noonday radiance on the trees and rocks and snow, the flush of alpenglow, and a thousand dashing waterfalls with their marvelous abundance of irised spray, it still seems to be above all others the Range of Light.“
— John Muir
„I looked at my hands, to see if I was de same person now I was free. Dere was such a glory over everything, de sun came like gold trou de trees, and over de fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.“
— Harriet Tubman
„i thank You God for most this amazingday:for the leaping greenly spirits of treesand a blue true dream of sky; and for everythingwhich is natural which is infinite which is yes“
— E.E. Cummings