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The Middle
Wherever we are, you and I, …wherever we sit or stand right now, we are in the middle. The middle of the vastness of this Universe. Right now. It is projecting out from within us, from that middle place inside us all, that center place where Great Spirit dwells. Everything moves out from there. As we Walk it moves with us, it resides deep inside. When we pause for a moment, when we stand still and let the Vibration of the Hummingbird’s wings or the Silence from the wings of Butterfly enter our Middle, it connects us to the middle of All, the Center of all that is. …and in that moment we experience the most infinite power, the gentlest Peace, and the greatest love all in that one moment, right now, in the middle.

~ redskyhawk – From Walking the Earth Touching the Sky Facebook Page

Artist Point, Mt. Baker – photo by Mirwais Azami Photography, used with permission

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Wildness is…everywhere: ineradicable populations of fungi, moss, molds, yeasts, and such, that surround and inhabit us. Deer mice on the back porch, deer bounding across the freeway, pigeons in the park. Spiders in the corner.

~ Gary Snyder

Yosemite High Country – photo by Don Smith Photography, used with permission

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Because they are primeval, because they outlive us, because they are fixed, trees seem to emanate a sense of permanence. And though rooted in earth, they seem to touch the sky. For these reasons it is natural to feel we might learn wisdom from them, to haunt about them with the idea that if we could only read their silent riddle rightly we should learn some secret vital to our own lives; or even, more specifically, some secret vital to our real, our lasting and spiritual existence.

~ Kim Taplin, Tongues in Trees

Giant Sequoias, photo by Devadana Sanctuary

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The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of it’s scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.

~Therese of Lisieux

Photo by Elizabeth Lehmann, used with permission

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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it, and to foster its renewal, is our only hope.

When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s life may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

~ Wendell Berry

Wildflowers and Bishop Creek, Eastern Sierra, CA – photo by Don Smith Photography, used with permission

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Hold your hands out over the earth as over a flame. To all who love her, who open to her the doors of their veins, she gives of her strength, sustaining them with her own measureless tremor of dark life. Touch the earth, love the earth, honor the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places. For the gifts of life are the earth’s and they are given to all, and they are the songs of birds at daybreak, Orion and the Bear, and dawn seen over ocean from the beach.

~ Henry Beston

Alpine Meadow – Mt Rainier National Park, photo by Bob Cameron, used with permission

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Lost

Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you
Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I have made this place around you,
If you leave it you may come back again, saying Here.
No two trees are the same to Raven.
No two branches are the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows
Where you are. You must let it find you.

~ David Wagoner

Mossy Grotto, OR – photo by Chris Williams Exploration Photography, used with permission

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When we speak of Nature it is wrong to forget that we are ourselves a part of Nature. We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.

~ Henri Matisse

Waterwheel Falls, Yosemite – photo by Don Smith Photography, used with permission

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Everywhere water is a thing of beauty, gleaming in the dewdrops; singing in the summer rain; shining in the ice-gems till the leaves all seem to turn to living jewels; spreading a golden veil over the setting sun; or a white gauze around the midnight moon.

~ John Ballantine Gough

El Capitan Reflection, Yosemite – photo by Gary Hart Photography, used with permission

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Traditional Koyukon people live in a world that watches, in a forest of eyes. A person moving through nature – however wild, remote, even desolate the place may be – is never truly alone. The surroundings are sensate, personified. They feel. They can be offended. And they must, at every moment, be treated with the proper respect.

~ Richard Nelson

Mouse Creek Falls, NC – photo by Jeff Burcher Photography, used with permission

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