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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
No Names
… I wonder what it would be like to go into a forest where nothing has a name… if we started all over, giving names, would any fact about the forest compel us to name the same units?
- Kathleen Dean Moore
Always Beauty
Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.
- Albert Schweitzer
The Teacher
Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher.
- William Wordsworth
I Am the Tree
I saw the tree was standing there
Bearing some of my life in it
I was rising high in the branches of the tree
And sinking deep in the roots of the tree
Now I am the tree
The tree is me.
- Bal Ram Adhikari
How Trees Preach
Trees do not preach learning and precepts. They preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.
- Hermann Hesse
Welcome!
If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
- Hal Borland
What Does Nature Teach Us?
“Nature teaches us simplicity and contentment, because in its presence we realize we need very little to be happy.”
- Mark Coleman
Keeping the Light
Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
- Theodore Roethke
Let Earth Delight Your Feet
Forget not that Earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
- Kahlil Gibran
Trees Are Sanctuaries
Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth.
- Herman Hesse
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