“Within the human heart, we all feel the call to be simple, to be present, and to be real. Yet throughout the day, the world usrges us to be at war with ourselves and each other; ‘Be resentful about the past. Be anxious about the future. Be hungry for what you don’t see. Be dissatisfied with what you do see. Be guilty. Be important. Be bored. Be right.’ Little else in nature exhibits this need to be more than it is. The simplicity of rain, the clarity of a star, the effortlessness of a bird, the single mindedness of an ant–all are just what they are.”

–Hugh Prather