Tag: snow

No Names

… I wonder what it would be like to go into a forest where nothing has a name… if we started all over, giving names, would any fact about the forest compel us to name the same units?  Kathleen Dean Moore 

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… Rick Bass

The Blessed Mountains

These blessed mountains are so compactly filled with God’s beauty, no petty personal hope or experience  has room to be . . . . the whole body seems to feel beauty when exposed to it as it feels the campfire or  sunshine, entering not by the… Continue Reading “The Blessed Mountains”

The Times Are Urgent

The times are urgent; let us slow down. African Saying

Be a Lamp

Be a lamp or a lifeboat or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd. Rumi

Finding Awe

We can find awe, then, in eight wonders of life: moral beauty, collective effervescence, nature, music, visual design, spirituality and religion, life and death, and epiphany. Dacher Keltner

Look Deeply

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. Albert Einstein

Peace Is Generous

Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all. Oscar Romero

We Are Nature

We are nature and we are it all the time, no matter how far away or how close we perceive it to be at each moment. Fabiana Fondevila

Eye of the Beholder

People often say that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. Salma Hayek