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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
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
Let Earth Change You
Knowing that you love the earth changes you, activates you to defend and protect and celebrate.
- Robin Wall Kimmerer
More Than a Forest
When a forest gets to be this old and untouched, it becomes something more than a forest. It becomes what we would think of as a mind, with history…
- Rick Bass
Walk into a Forest
Simply walking into a forest is a holiday for your mind and soul, allowing your imagination and creativity to bloom.
- Diana Beresford-Kroeger
The Forest Is Sacredness
The forest is not merely an expression or representation of sacredness, nor a place to invoke the sacred; the forest is sacredness itself.
- Richard Nelson
Broken but Blooming
We’re all broken but blooming. The lilacs are another brilliant mirror of who we can grow to be, and already are.
- Eric Alan
Look Deeply
When we look deeply at a flower, we can see the whole cosmos contained in it.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
The Youth of April
“April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.”
— William Shakespeare
Unlocking Flowers
“Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.”
— Bishop Reginald Heber
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