Earth Speak Sunday #5

For today's Earth Speak Sunday, I present three quotes in honor of Earth Day 2013. For those that don't know, Earth Day 2013 is Monday, April 22 (tomorrow).

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The earth laughs in flowers.

The Four Seasons: Japanese Haiku by Hokushi

Experimenting...

I hung the moon

on various

branches of the pine

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair

The flowers in the first picture are Ranunculus acris, commonly known as the meadow buttercup, tall buttercup, and giant buttercup. I believe that the squirrel in the second picture is the Western Gray Squirrel