Stillness

Such stillness

the cries of the cicadas

sink into the rocks

  • Basho
Chicago Botanic Gardens

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May I Find You, O God, Everywhere

You are above me, O God,

you are within.

You are in all things

yet contained by no thing.

Teach me to seek you in all that has life

that I may see you as the Light of life.

Teach me to search for you in my own depths

that I may find you in every living soul.

  • John Philip Newell, Sounds of the Eternal: A Celtic Psalter

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New Roads

“When we walk with love, new roads open to us and we see the way forward where before there was only a wall.”

  • Gabriel Andreas, StoryPeople

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I Becomes We

“In biology, every ‘I’ has been enabled by a ‘we.’”

  • Andreas Weber

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The Call of Hope

“Hope just means another world might be possible, not promise, not guaranteed. Hope calls for action; action is impossible without hope.”

  • Rebecca Solnit

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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, knowledge, memory, and foresight.”

  • Rick Bass

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Observe the Wonders

“Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.”

  • Jalaluddin Rumi

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Each to their Own Place

Every being has its own important and unique place in the cosmic dance.

  • Lawrence Overmire

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Listening to the Divine through the Natural World

Lilacs in Lilacia Park in Lombard, Illinois

[T]he divine communicates to us primarily through the language of the natural world. Not to hear the natural world is not to hear the divine.

– Thomas Berry, The Sacred Universe (2009) 

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Gardens Say “I Love You”

A garden is a way that the land says, “I love you.”…Gardens are simultaneously a material and a spiritual undertaking.

  • Robin Wall Kimmerer

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