"New Zealand is nature, nature is everywhere. The force of nature can be threatening, like the crashing waves against the rocks in stormy weather. But even then nature has a healing spirit, just like the silence of the rainforest that makes you whisper, the deep blue sky and the bright sunlight that makes the colours even more vivid and the stars and the moonlight at night that make you feel so peaceful and tiny in this big universe."
Jo Mertens
http://www.farbeyond.co.nz/