If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.
~ Alan Watts
Prehistoric Forest, photo from bigstock.com, used with permission
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The Universe is one indivisible, dynamic whole in which energy and matter are so deeply entangled it is impossible to consider them as independent elements.
~ Bruce H. Lipton
Sunrise Light Paints The Tetons And Cottonwoods, Grand Teton National Park, WY – photo by Don Smith Photography, used with permission
Everything in nature is alive and influences your thoughts whether you know it or not. Whos 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
Staircase, Olympic National Park – photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission
When you go out into the woods and you look at trees,
you see all these different trees.
And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight,
and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever.
And you look at the tree and you allow it.
You appreciate it.
You see why it is the way it is.
You sort of understand that it didnt get enough light, and so it turned that way.
And you dont get all emotional about it.
You just allow it. You appreciate the tree.
The minute you get near humans, you lose all that.
And you are constantly saying Youre too this, or Im too this.
That judging mind comes in.
And so I practice turning people into trees.
Which means appreciating them just the way they are.
~ Ram Dass
Tree People of Central Park, photo by Devadana Sanctuary
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The communication of the world did not occur in the visible realm of Newton, but in the subatomic world of Werner Heisenberg. Cells and DNA communicate through frequencies. The brain perceived and made its own record of the world in pulsating waves. A substructure underpins the universe that is essentially a recording medium of everything, providing a means for everything to communicate with everything else. People are indivisible from their environment. Living consciousness is not an isolated entity.
~ Lynn McTaggart
Ruby Beach, photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission.
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Have you allowed that familiar yet mysterious
being we call plant to teach you its secrets?
Have you noticed how deeply peaceful it is?
How it is surrounded by a field of stillness?
The moment you become aware of a plant’s
emanation of stillness and peace,
that plant becomes your teacher.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Baker Creek Falls – photo by Sandy’s NW Hiking Photos, used with permission
Nature is not unfeeling matter; it is full of invisible forces with their own intelligence and deep knowing. We need to re-acknowledge the existence of the spiritual world within creation if we are even to begin the real work of bringing the world back into balance .
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Jackson Lake, Grand Teton National Park – photo by Don Smith Photography, used with permission
All human activities, professions, programs, and institutions must henceforth be judged primarily by the extent to which they inhibit, ignore, or foster a mutually enhancing human/Earth relationship.
~ Thomas Berry
Dogwood Above the Merced River, Yosemite – photo by Gary Hart Photography, used with permission
We live in a world of energy. An important task at this time is to learn to sense or see the energy of everyone and everything – people, plants, animals. This becomes increasingly important as we enter the World of the Fifth Sun, for it is associated with the element ‘ether’ – the realm where energy lives and weaves. Go to the sacred places of the Earth to pray for peace, and have respect for the Earth which gives us our food, clothing, and shelter. We need to reactivate the energy of these sacred places. That is our work.
~ Carlos Barrios, Mayan Elder & Ajq’ij of the Eagle Clan
Scotland – photo by Mark Gray, used with permission
Next time you see a tree or plant, take a moment to express thanks. With each breath you take in, experience gratitude for the oxygen that would simply not be there save for the magnificent work plants have done in transforming our atmosphere and making it breathable. As you look at all the greenery, bear in mind also that plants, by absorbing carbon dioxide and reducing the greenhouse effect, have saved our world from becoming dangerously overheated. Without plants and all they do for us, we would not be alive today. Consider how you would like to express your thanks.
~ Joanna Macy
Staircase, Olympic National Park – photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission
The river is one of my favorite metaphors, the symbol of the great flow of Life Itself. The river begins at Source, and returns to Source, unerringly. This happens every single time, without exception. We are no different.
~ Jeffrey R. Anderson, The Nature of Things – Navigating Everyday Life with Grace
North Fork Skokomish River, photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission
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
Pu’u Kila Lookout, Kauai – photo by Don Smith Photography, used with permission