The human venture depends absolutely on this quality of awe and reverence and joy in the Earth and all that lives and grows upon the Earth. As soon as we isolate ourselves from these currents of life and from the profound mood that these engender within us, then our basic life-satisfactions are diminished. None of our machine-made products, none of our computer-based achievements can evoke that total commitment to life.

~ Thomas Berry

This morning’s photo is also from KR Backwoods Photography. We include it so that you can have some sense of the size of the trees in the Hoh Rainforest. Look for Kevin, the photographer, standing on the path.

A Walk Among Giants, Hoh Rainforest, photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission