Everything in nature is alive and influences your thoughts whether you know it or not.

Who’s to say the rock does not hear your thoughts? Nor the river? Or, the mountain ranges? We all belong to this living world and there is nothing that does not belong.

~ Tony Ten Fingers, Oglala Lakota

Phantom Ship Island, Crater Lake National Park, OR – photo by Kris Wiktor, bigstockphoto.com