“You are ignorant of life if you do not love it just as it is: a shaft of light from a neaby star, a flash of the blue saltwater that curls around the five upthrust rocks of the continents, a net of green leaves spread to catch the light and use it, and you, walking under the trees. You, a handful of supple earth and long white stones with seawater running in your veins.” - Donald Culross Peattie, 1935