Posted on June 7, 2026
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If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
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 April 26, 2026
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“Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.” — Bishop Reginald Heber
Category: SpiritualityTags: azaeleas, bishop reginald heber, chicago botanic gardens, clouds, flowers, japanese garden, nature, park, photo, photography, quote, trees
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 May 11, 2025
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Nature teaches us simplicity and contentment, because in its presence we realize we need very little to be happy.
Posted on March 30, 2025
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I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened. Mark Twain
Category: WisdomTags: donner lake, donner pass, forest, lake, mark twain, nature, path, photo, photography, trail, trees, wisdom
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
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