If we can hear the cry of the Earth, feel this grief in our soul, then something in our heart opens. We are not separate from the Earth, her loss is our loss, her cry our cry. Our heart becomes the Earth’s prayer that calls, and love the response to that call. We are drawn back to the simple human values of love and care – love and care for the Earth and its myriad inhabitants. More and more I believe that small things with love are what are needed – acts rooted in loving kindness – because it is in these qualities that the soul is present, and only when the soul is present can miracles happen, can magic come alive, and prayers be answered. And love is the greatest force in creation.

~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Iguazu Falls, photo from bigstockphoto.com, used with permission