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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Autumn Beauty
On a bare branch
a crow settles
in autumn dusk
- Basho
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My Favorite Season
Autumn is my favorite season. The flush of red and gold a brief reminder that everything is sweeter when we know it cannot last.
- Gabriel Andreas, StoryPeople
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Contemplate Beauty
Those who contemplate the beauty of the Earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
- Rachel Carson
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Without Trees
To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots.
- Richard Mabey
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Our Origins
Our origins are of the Earth. And so there is in us a deeply seated response to the natural universe, which is part of our humanity.
- Rachel Carson
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Alive Poems
Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems.
- Joy Harjo
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Story of Earth
In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the Earth.
- Rachel Carson
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Finding Joy
I look up at the blue sky and the bare chestnut tree, on whose branches little raindrops shine, appearing like silver, and at the seagulls and other birds as they glide on the wind. As long as this exists…and I may live to see it, this sunshine, these cloudless skies, while this lasts I cannot be unhappy.
- Anne Frank
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Wisdom of Heraclitus
Wisdom is the Oneness of Mind that guides and permeates all things.
- Heraclitus
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Freedom
The world is filled with the Absolute. To see this is to be made free.
- Teilhard de Chardin
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