…if I have learned anything from my own spiritual journey, it is that what matters most is love. Love is the most powerful force in creation, and it is our love for the Earth that will heal what we have desecrated, that will guide us through this wasteland and help us to bring light back into our darkening world. Love links us all together in the most mysterious ways, and love can guide our hearts and hands. And the central note of love is oneness. Love speaks the language of oneness, of unity rather than separation.

~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, from “Paris: A Spiritual Response to Climate Change

South Falls, Silver Creek Falls – photo by Sandy’s NW Hiking Photos, used with permission