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Speaking about an experiment done with plants and the response of a plant that didn’t make it to a pole before another one:

What is interesting is the behaviour of the loser: it immediately sensed the other plant had reached the pole and started to find an alternative. This was astonishing and it demonstrates the plants were aware of their physical environment and the behaviour of the other plant. In animals we call this consciousness.

~ BBC News on “Science and Environment”

Plant Life after the Rain – photo by yayabaidillah, bigstockphoto.com

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In reality there is a single integral community of the Earth that includes all its component members whether human or other than human. In this community every being has its own role to fulfill, its own dignity, its inner spontaneity., 

~ Thomas Berry

Greater Egret – photo by tornado98, bigstockphoto.com

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…we are all energy, radiating our own unique energy signature. Feelings, thoughts and emotions play a vital role, quantum physics helps us see the significance of how we all feel. If all of us are in a peaceful loving state inside, it will no doubt impact the external world around us, and influence how others feel as well.

~ Arjuna Walia

Central Park – photo by Devadana Sanctuary

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Still as sleeping water, quiet as snow on snow, within each of us is a sacred center… No matter how intense the struggles around us may be, there is always a steady and serene center within us. It is the place of our connection to the infinite. Rest and renew in this holy space whenever you can. It will always be there, waiting for you.

~ Steven Charleston

Cotton Flower Wildflower Blossom – photo by Jay Pierstorff, bigstockphotocom

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When we pause, we are able to observe our interdependence—from a harvest taken from the soil by a stranger’s hands to the electrician who keeps the lights and Wi-Fi on. We are surrounded by the abundance we create for each other. 

~ Joe Primo

Flowering Field in An Olive Grove, Sicily, Italy – photo by Leonid Tit, bigstockphoto.com

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But the most astonishing thing about trees is how social they are. The trees in a forest care for each other, sometimes even going so far as to nourish the stump of a felled tree for centuries after it was cut down by feeding it sugars and other nutrients, and so keeping it alive. Only some stumps are thus nourished. Perhaps they are the parents of the trees that make up the forest of today. A tree’s most important means of staying connected to other trees is a “wood wide web” of soil fungi that connects vegetation in an intimate network that allows the sharing of an enormous amount of information and goods. Scientific research aimed at understanding the astonishing abilities of this partnership between fungi and plant has only just begun.

~ Peter Wohlleben

Redwood Forest, Northern California, US – photo by Virrage Images, bigstockphoto.com 

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We cannot take the rain out of the flower or the oxygen out of the tree. We cannot take anything out of anything else. We are the mountains and rivers; we are the sun and stars. Everything inter-is. 

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Mount Bromo and Batok Volcanoes, East Java, Indonesia – photo by Mazur Travel, bigstockphoto.com 

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The water in your body flowed down the Nile, fell as monsoon rain onto India, and swirled around the Pacific. The carbon in the molecules of your cells was mined from the atmosphere by the plants we eat. The salt in your sweat and tears, the calcium of your bones, and the iron in your blood all eroded out of the rocks of Earth’s crust; and the sulphur of the protein in your hair and muscles was spewed out by volcanoes.

~ Lewis Dartnell, astrobiologist

Volcanic Glow – photo by PixieMe, bigstockphoto.com

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What if our religion was each other? If our practice was our life? What if the temple was the Earth? If forests were our church? If holy water – the rivers, lakes, and oceans? What if meditation was our relationships? If the Teacher was life? If wisdom was knowledge? If love was the center of our being. 

~ Ganga White

Zion National Park, UT – photo by nrlphoto, bigstockphoto.com

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And now, as we stumble into this present landscape there is an even greater need for a deeper awareness, to be receptive to the spirits of the land and the beings of light who can help to guide us, who are always around despite our censorship of the unseen worlds. We are always part of a fully animate world, even if we have abandoned this knowing. Visions can sing to us, can show us the songlines to follow, the dreams we need. We can no longer afford to remain isolated within our rational consciousness.

~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Elf Garden, Iceland, Nature Spirit – photo by Ragnhildur Jonsdottir

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The obvious choice, then, is to extend our notions of self-interest. For example, it would not occur to me to plead with you, “Don’t saw off your leg. That would be an act of violence.” It wouldn’t occur to me (or to you) because your leg is part of your body. Well, so are the trees in the Amazon rain basin. They are our external lungs. We are beginning to realize that the world is our body.  

~ Joanna Macy, Greening of the Self

Amazon Jungle – photo by pxhildalgo, bigstockphoto.com 

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