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 February 16, 2025
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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”
Posted on January 29, 2025
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The times are urgent; let us slow down.
Category: SpiritualityTags: african saying, chicago, forest, hill, morton arboretum, nature, park, photo, photography, qjuote, snow, trees
Posted on January 26, 2025
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Be a lamp or a lifeboat or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.
Posted on January 22, 2025
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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.
Category: SpiritualityTags: chicago, dacher keltner, forest, giant trolls, morton arboretum, park, photo, photography, quote, scupture, snow, thomas dambo, trees
Posted on January 19, 2025
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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Category: SpiritualityTags: albert einstein, bird, branches, chicago, morton arboretum, nature, park, photo, photography, quote, snow
Posted on January 15, 2025
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Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all.
Category: SpiritualityTags: bench tree, chicago, lake, morton arboretum, oscar romero, park, photo, photography, post-processing, quote, sepia tone, snow
Posted on January 5, 2025
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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.
Category: SpiritualityTags: dupage river, fabiana fondevila, morton arboretum, nature, park, photo, photography, quote, snow, stream, trees
Posted on January 1, 2025
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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.
Category: BeautyTags: black and white photo, bridge, chicago, morton arboretum, nature, park, photo, photography, quote, salma hayek, snow, trees
Posted on December 29, 2024
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You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Category: SpiritualityTags: forest, frederick buechner, landscape, mountains, nature, photo, photography, quote, sierra nevadas, snow, yosemite national park
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