When you are out in nature, in the company of trees, bushes, grasses, and flowers, welcome the opportunity to be silent and passive. Luther Burbank explains in Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird's The Secret Life of Plants: "Preconceived notions, dogmas, and all personal prejudice and bias must be laid aside. Listen patiently, quietly, reverently to the lessons, one by one, which Mother Nature has to teach. . . . She conveys her truths only to those who are passive and receptive."
— Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat in Summertime and Living Takes Practices