Gardens As Teachers

“We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?”

  • Wendell Berry

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On the Feast of the Annunciation – What Can You Believe?

“God is not too hard to believe in. God is too good to believe in, we being such strangers to such goodness. The love of God is to me absolutely overwhelming.”

  • Rev. William Sloane Coffin, Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, 8/27/04

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Divine Possibility

“Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.”

  • Barbara Brown Taylor
Petroglyphs in Petrified Forest National Park

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Finding Home

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home. 

  • Gary Snyder

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Wisdom of the Dalai Lama

“My life, when I look back, has not been easy. One thing I learned was that compassion, a sense of caring, thinking about others’ welfare, that sort of mental attitude brings me inner peace.”

  • Dalai Lama

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Seeing the Way

“The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.”

  • John Muir

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How to Be a Lighthouse

“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”

  • Anne Lamott

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Broken and 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

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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

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Listen to Trees

“To listen to trees, nature’s great connectors, is to learn how to inhabit the relationships that give life its source, substance, and beauty.”

  • David George Haskell

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