Wildcrafting With Ila

[ila hatter]

"When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty."
John Muir, 1879, from "Travels in Alaska"

Micheal Nader wrote,"Forests persisted in over-all good shape for millions of years before the advent of foresters. The trees of the forest matured, fell, disintegrated and returned their materials to the earth for regeneration of the environment as a living, evolving spirit."

"All the water that has ever been or ever will be is here now. It sits, it runs, it rises as mist. It evaporates and falls again as rain or snow...You cannot pollute a drop of water anywhere without eventually poisoning some distant place."
Michael Furtman

"To see a World in a grain of sand, and Heaven in a Wildflower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, and Eternity in an hour."
William Blake

"Perhap's Time's definition of Coal, is the Diamond"
Kahlil Gibran