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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The Feast of Hildegard of Bingen

I, the fiery life of divine essence, am aflame beyond the beauty of the meadows, I gleam in the waters, and I burn in the sun, moon, and stars ….  I awaken everything to life.

  • Hildergard of Bingen

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Sparkling Nature

To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Clear Vision

Clear Vision

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  • Carl Jung

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