I’m neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a dyed-in-the-wool possibilist! By this, I mean with an eco-mind, we see that everything’s connected and change is the only constant.
~Frances Moore Lappé
Antrim, Ireland – photo by Stephen Emerson
Daily Inspiration
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For what lies inside the human being is the whole spiritual cosmos in condensed form. In our inner organism we have an image of the entire cosmos.
~ Rudolf Steiner
The Big Dipper – photo by Gary Hart Photography, used with permission
The central purpose of the Work that Reconnects is to help people uncover and experience their innate connections with each other and with the systemic, self-healing powers of the web of life, so that they may be enlivened and motivated to play their part in creating a sustainable civilization.
~ Joanna Macy
Vance Creek Ponds – KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission
Rather than projecting…science fiction images of aliens or galactic travel, I would begin with the microcosmic understanding of what it means to us individually to step outside of the isolated sense we have of our own separate self, and instead embrace and live from a consciousness of oneness in which we KNOW how we are part of an interconnected whole.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Bryce Canyon, KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission
Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
~ Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Milky Way – KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission
We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers our actions run as causes and return to us as results.
~ Herman Melville
Horsetail Fall, Yosemite – photo by Gary Hart 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. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.
~ Wendell Berry
Denali National Park – photo by Niebrugge Images, used with permission
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely, or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy amidst the simple beauty of nature. …I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.
~ Anne Frank
First Light, Yosemite Valley – photo by Gary Hart Photography, used with permission
As humans, water makes up seventy percent of our bodies. Water is who we are at our most elemental level. We must learn to respect water, as it is us.
~ J. Michael Read
Dungeness River, photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission’
It would not occur to me to exhort you to refrain from cutting off your leg. That wouldnt occur to me or to you, because your leg is part of you. Well, so are the trees in the Amazon Basin; they are our external lungs. We are just beginning to wake up to that. We are gradually discovering that we are our world.
~ Joanna Macy
Douglas Fir Rainforest, by Point North – Images by Frank George III, used with permission
Wherever you stand,
be the soul of that place.
~ Rumi
Sunset of gold along Washington’s north coast, photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
~ John Muir
Victoria Falls, Zambia – photo by Aubrey
When we see images of the earth from space, we see no boundaries between us, just this one blue planet, where climate change affects us all, where the global economy brings us all together. In the past, Tibet, surrounded by mountains, cherished its isolation. But, such isolation is outdated. Today, we need to take account of the well-being of the whole of humanity and preserving the health of the planet.
~His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Rialto Beach, photo by TAO Photography, used with permission
We have lived our lives by the assumption that what is good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it.
~ Wendell Berry
Plinth Peak, Pemberton Valley, BC – Marcel Pepin Photography, used with permission
You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
~ Jane Goodall
Full Moon – photo by Crystal Garcia
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