To perceive the soul of the Earth requires a sense of what Taoists call the way of life, the fact that everything in our world is in relationship to everything else, that nothing is itself without everything else, and that anything that seems to be a distinct thing is actually an element or strand in a larger pattern.
~ Geneen Marie Haugen
Fuego and Acatenango Volcanos, Antigua, Guatemala – photo by Lucy Brown, bigstockphoto.com
In earlier epochs of human history, people lived in harmony with the natural world, and regarded plants as sentient, aware, intelligent, alive, and healers in their own right. Tribal shamans earned powerful status as spiritual leaders and liaisons between plants and the spirit world.
~ Kathleen Daley
Young Grape Leaves – photo from bigstockphoto.com
The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.
~ Wendell Berry
Mt. Cook, Hooker Valley, Mt. Cook National Park, New Zealand – photo from bigstockphoto.com
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