Tag: nature
10 quotes
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Solitude… is what sustains me and protects me from my mind. It renders me fully present. I am desert. I am mountains. I am Great Salt Lake. There are other languages being spoken by wind, water, and wings. There are other lives to consider:…
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In this age of the Anthropocene, as H. sapiens puts its heavy and indelible stamp on every last corner of the globe, humanity must continue to evolve, in outlook most of all. All peoples must learn to accept what science clearly shows: that ours is…
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# AS IF TO DEMONSTRATE AN ECLIPSE I pick an orange from a wicker basket and place it on the table to represent the sun. Then down at the other end a blue and white marble becomes the earth and nearby I lay the little moon of an…
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SPELL AGAINST INDIFFERENCE The rain falls and falls cool, bottomless, and prehistoric falls like night not an ablution not a baptism just a small reason to remember all we know of Heaven to remember we are still here with our love songs…
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It bears repeating that what makes life livable is our ability our willingness to move through the world wonder-smitten by reality. The most wonderful thing about wonder is that it knows no scale, no class, no category it can be found in a geranium…
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Somehow we keep forgetting that human nature is but a fractal of nature itself.
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When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will you realize that you cannot eat money.
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Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.
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Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty
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You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. Never underestimate the power of love. The way to love anything is to realize it may be lost. The heart has its reasons that reason does not know at all.…