Great Spirit, Great Spirit, my Grandfather, all over the Earth the faces of living things are all alike ... Look upon these faces of children without number and with children in their arms, that they may face the winds and walk the good road to the day of quiet.
- Black Elk (Oglala Sioux holy man)
I live not in myself, but I become portion of that around me; and to me high mountains are a feeling, but the hum of human cities torture
- Lord Byron

The Earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very well where they are, I know they suffice for those who belong to them.
- Walt Whitman

There are no churches but that which surrounds us; There are no preachers but the birds.
- from Jeremiah Johnson

Blue, blue windows behind the stars, yellow moon on the rise; big birds flying across the sky, throwing shadows on our eyes.
- Neil Young