Posts tagged ‘sierra nevadas’
Participating in Divinity
When before the beauty of a sunset or a mountain, you pause and exclaim, “Ah,” you are participating in divinity.
Joseph Campbell, Ancient Hindu Text
All is Alive
The earth is a living thing. Mountains speak, trees sing, lakes can think, pebbles have a soul, rocks have power.
– Henry Crow Dog
We in the Mountains/The Mountains in Us
We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
– John Muir
Wednesday of Hope – Resilience, Resistance, Tenacity
Optimism
More and more I have come to admire resilience.
Not the simple resistance of a pillow, whose foam
returns over and over to the same shape, but the sinuous
tenacity of a tree: finding the light newly blocked on one side,
it turns in another. A blind intelligence, true.
But out of such persistence arose turtles, rivers,
mitochondria, figs — all this resinous, unretractable earth.– Jane Hirshfield, Given Sugar, Given Salt
Looking into the Deep Landscape
While we cry ourselves to sleep, gratitude waits patiently to console and reassure us; there is a landscape larger than the one we can see.
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
To Be Alive Today
It is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in this broken world.
– Mary Oliver
There is no more awe inspiring sight to me than Mount Whitney.
Joy in Unlikely Places
For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I have always been amazed at the tenacious quality of life. How the trees grow right through granite rocks and hang on to the side of a cliff through all kinds of weather.
