…the indigenous peoples of America insisted that every plant had its own song and those who knew the song could then evoke the deeper medicine of the plant…
~ Stephen Harrod Buhner
Palo Santo Trees – Galápagos – photo by Terra Tirapelli
The use of the heart as an organ of perception and communication, [is] to weave us once again inextricably into the life web of the Earth, to gather knowledge from the heart of the world, and to help us live a whole and fulfilled life, to become who we are meant to be…
~ Stephen Buhner
Blue Morpho Butterly, Costa Rican Cloud Forest – photo by Sherrrrye, bigstockphoto.com
The universe itself is the primary sacred community. All human religion should be considered as participation in the religious aspect of the universe itself. It is false to say that humanity is the most excellent being in the universe. The most excellent being in the universe is the universe itself.
~ Thomas Berry
Starry Night – photo by iiievgenly, bigstockphoto.com
My profound belief, as well as my experience, is that there is only One Life dressed up in an infinite array of bodies and modes of consciousness which, on this planet, are all kin birthed by the same Mother. My deepest prayer is that we humans will awaken to an awareness of this underlying oneness so that we can actively participate in our earth family as a supportive, collaborative presence.
~ Nancy J. Napier
Sunrise, Phu Kradueng National Park, Thailand – photo by Boysloso, bigstockphoto.com
We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the Universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of Nature, a unique action of the total Universe….
You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
~ Alan Watts
Twelve Apostles, Australia – photo by Goglik83, bigstockphoto.com
The universe is composed of subjects to be communed with, not of objects to be exploited. Everything has its own voice. Thunder and lightening and stars and planets, flowers, birds, animals, trees—all these have voices, and they constitute a community of existence that is profoundly related.
~Thomas Berry
Electrical Storm, Blue Lake, Spain – photo by vicenfoto, bigstockphoto.com
The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it. If a mountain is a deity, not a pile of ore; if a river is one of the veins of the land, not potential irrigation water; if a forest is a sacred grove, not timber; if other species are biological kin, not resources; or if the planet is our mother, not an opportunity—then we will treat each other with greater respect. Thus is the challenge, to look at the world from a different perspective.
~ David Suzuki
Carpathian National Park, Ukraine – photo by Leonid Tit, bigstockphoto.com
Try a new perspective on diversity. Across the country and around the world, we are all one.
~ Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sunset in Iceland – photo by rasica, bigstockphoto.com
You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.
~ Chief Seattle
Arches National Park, Moab, UT – photo by Bill Perry, bigstockphoto.com
In the Circle of Life, every being is no more, or less, than any other. We are all sisters and brothers. Life is shared with the bird, bear, insects, plants, mountains, clouds, stars, sun.
~ Rudolph Steiner
Leopard, Kruger National Park, South Africa – photo by bennymarty, bigstockphoto.com
Nature is a unity in diversity…a harmony, blending together all created things…one great whole animated by the breath of life.
~ Alexander von Humboldt
North Shore, Kauai, Hawaii – photo by Steven Gaertner, bigstockphoto.com
Every living being is connected intimately, and from this intimacy follows the capacity of identification, and as its natural consequence, the practice of non-violence.
~ Arne Naess
Coastal Rock Arches, North Island, New Zealand – photo by kavram, bigstockphoto.com
Like trees who share the same root system, we are but individual expressions of the greater whole. When we raise a revolution in our personal psyche, we are serving the quickening of collective consciousness.
~ Dreamwork with Toko-pa
Milky Way Over the Forest – photo by Teemu Tretjakov Photography, bigstockphoto.com
A typical feature of shamans is their familiarity with states of consciousness that allow visions and explorations of other dimensions. Their primary function is to navigate from one reality to another in order to operate as bridges and create healing connections. There are many dimensions and worlds, which in our separate reality are totally unknown.
~ The Mind Unleashed
Dragon Caves, Majorca, Spain – photo by romrodinka, bigstockphoto.com
Compassion is a power with its own sphere of influence, a realm engaged by fine energy patterns that play out as behaviors, such as aspiration, empathy, and the fulfillment of a need to heal…
~ Dolores Krieger
Winter Sunset – photo by pellinni, bigstockphoto.com
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