Memory

“Every place, every landscape, is a site of memory and a site of erasure over different scales of time and space. Sand and stone are pieces of Earth’s memory; yet, you could also say that each of us is a terrain inscribed by memory and by loss.”

  • Lauret Savoy

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Birdsong

“A birdsong can even, for a moment, make the whole world into a sky within us, because we feel that the bird does not distinguish between its heart and the world’s.”

  • Rainer Maria Rilke

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Silence

“In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.”

  • Robert Lyn

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Magic

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”

  • W.B. Yeats

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Poems

“Poems are words that take you through three kinds of doors: closed doors, secret doors, and doors you don’t know are there.”

  • Stephanie Strickland

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Beyond the Clouds

“Beyond the clouds, the sun never stops shining.”

  • Gavin Pretor-Pinney

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Earth’s Relationship

“Knowing that you love the earth changes you, activates you to defend and protect and celebrate. But when you feel that the earth loves you in return, that feeling transforms the relationship from a one-way street into a sacred bond.”

  • Robin Wall Kimmerer

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Awaken to the Dawn

“Only that day dawns to which we are awake.”

  • Henry David Thoreau

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The Nature of Nature

“My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.”

  • Oliver Sacks

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Dante’s Wisdom

“Beauty awakens the soul to act.”

  • Dante Alighieri

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