Posted on May 17, 2026
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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…
Category: SpiritualityTags: ancient bristlecone forest, bristlecone pine, bristlecone pine forest, forest, hillside, mountains, nature, photo, photography, quote, rick bass, snow, trees
Posted on May 10, 2026
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The forest is not merely an expression or representation of sacredness, nor a place to invoke the sacred; the forest is sacredness itself.
Posted on March 25, 2026
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I go among the trees and sit still.All my stirring becomes quietaround me like circles on water.My tasks lie in their placeswhere I left them, asleep like cattle.
Category: SpiritualityTags: fern, forest, muir woods, nature, photo, photography, poem, quote, sabbaths, trees, wendell berry
Posted on March 1, 2026
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Happiness is a direction, not a place.
Posted on November 19, 2025
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The world has enough beautiful mountains and meadows, spectacular skies and serene lakes. It has enough lush forests, flowered fields, and sandy beaches. It has plenty of stars and the promise of a new sunrise and sunset every day. What the world needs more… Continue Reading “What Do We Need?”
Category: GratefulnessTags: clouds, forest, lake, lake tahoe, michael josephson, nature, photo, photography, quote, sierra nevadas, sunset
Posted on October 8, 2025
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“The Holy Land is everywhere.”
Posted on September 14, 2025
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When you are present in your own life it extends infinitely in every direction.
Category: SpiritualityTags: cloudy sky, forest, glacier national park, john tarrant, landscape, montana, mountains, nature, photo, photography, quote
Posted on August 20, 2025
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I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable…but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Category: SpiritualityTags: agatha christi, eastern sierras, forest, mountains, mt. whitney, nature, photo, photography, quote, sierra nevadas, whitney portal
Posted on August 17, 2025
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While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
Category: SpiritualityTags: cloudy sky, forest, half dome, nature, olmstead point, photo, photogaphy, quote, sierra nevadas, st. francis of assisi, yosemite national park
Posted on August 10, 2025
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Faith is only found when needed,only real when used.Until then it is a seed . . .
Category: SpiritualityTags: ancient bristlecone forest, bristlecone pine, eastern sierras, forest, judith a hartley, national park, nature, photo, photography, pine cone bud, quote, tree, white mountains
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