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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
The Best Teachers
You will find something far greater in the woods than you will find in books. Stones and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
- Bernard of Clairvauex
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
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