…no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth’s thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run by bacteria, fungi and green plants.
~ Vaclav Smil
Russula Mushroom, Costa Rican Jungle – photo by Kevin Wells Photography, bigstockphoto.com
Devadana Sanctuary
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…when we place our emphasis and consciousness on the soul of the world, we’re embracing the world as something sacred, as something that has its own essence, its own purpose and destiny that might very well be different, bigger, and more mysterious than anything we suspect or anything we could understand.
~ Geneen Marie Haugen
Zhangjiajie Forest Park, China – photo by Breev Sergey, bigstockphoto.com
Quantum science suggests the existence of many possible futures for each moment of our lives. Each future lies in a state of rest until it is awakened by choices made in the present.
~ Gregg Braden
Ocean Sunrise – photo by Smileus, bigstockphoto.com
We serve others and expand our love past our small circle to include the greater collective…We all have a special vibration that contributes to the whole when we operate from our heart space.
~ Doc Childre
Vast and Powerful Iguazu Falls – photo by Nolleks86, bigstockphoto.com
We were told that we would see America come and go. In a sense America is dying, from within, because they forgot the instructions of how to live on earth. It’s the Hopi belief, it’s our belief, that if you are not spiritually connected to the earth, and understand the spiritual reality of how to live on earth, it’s likely that you will not make it…
In the Hopi prophecy they say the storms and floods will become greater. To me it’s not a negative thing to know that there will be great changes. It’s not negative, it’s evolution. When you look at it as evolution, it’s time, nothing stays the same. You should learn how to plant something. That is the first connection.
You should treat all things as spirit, realize that we are one family. It’s never something like the end. It’s like life, there is no end to life.
~ Floyd Red Crow Westerman
Monument Valley Sunset – photo by lucky-photographer, bigstockphoto.com
If there is any wisdom running through my life now, in walking on this earth, it came from listening in the Great Silence to the stones, trees, space, the wild animals, to the pulse of all life as my heartbeat.
~ Vijali Hamilton
Sunlight in the Forest – photo by everest comunity, bigstockphoto.com
We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Costa Rican Sunset – photo by wollertz, bigstockphoto.com
What if we expanded our sense of community to truly include all living beings? Included their perspectives, needs, and gifts? What would be the state of our environment then?
~ Susan Eirich
Hoodoos, Bryce Canyon National Park – photo by videowokart, bigstockphoto.com
There are also all the subtle realms. For some extraordinary reason, we as a culture have dismissed, forgotten rejected. And yet they belong to all of the different spiritual traditions—the shaman who works with the spirit world, the Tibetan Buddhist who works with deities, devas, and the land, or the Christian monk who prays to angels and icons of the saints, and even the Zen monk immersed in the Void in this realm
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Interview with David Nicole
Sunset, Callanish Stones, Lewis, Scotland – photo by stroop, bigstockphoto.com
The way we see the world affects the way we treat it. If a mountain is a deity, not a pile of ore; if a river is one of the veins of the land, not potential irrigation water; if a forest is a sacred grove, not timber; if other species are biological kin, not resources; or if the planet is our mother, not an opportunity—then we will treat each other with greater respect. Thus is the challenge, to look at the world from a different perspective.
~ David Suzuki
Sacred Tree People, Mariposa Grove, Yosemite – photo by cphoto, bigstockphoto.com
Bless our beautiful earth, our shared home…
Some Earth Day quotations:
We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.
~ Barbara Ward
The Earth is what we all have in common.
~ Wendell Berry
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
~ Margaret Mead
The environment is where we all meet; where we all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.
~ Lady Bird Johnson
A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
As I walk with Beauty
As I walk, as I walk,
The universe is walking with me,
In beauty it walks before me,
In beauty it walks behind me,
In beauty it walks below me,
In beauty it walks above me,
Beauty is on every side.
~ Traditional Navajo Prayer
Earth Seen from Apollo 17 – Photo by NASA/Apollo 17 crew
After the failure of humanity in the use and control of the other forces of the universe that have turned against us, it is urgent that we nourish ourselves with another kind of energy…
If we want our species to survive, if we are to find meaning in life, if we want to save the world and every sentient being that inhabits it, Love is the one and only answer.
~ Albert Einstein
Chac Mool Cave, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico – photoi by oksanavg, bigstockphoto.com
According to Navajo tradition, a “sacred wind” blows through the universe and brings the capacity for awareness and communication with others. Our individual consciousness is simply a local part of this larger, animating wind or life force that moves through all of nature.
~ Duane Elgin
Grand Canyon Sunset – photo by Kris Wiktor, bigstockphoto.com
The Ecosattva Vows, by Joanna Macy
I vow myself to each of you:
To commit myself daily to the healing of our worldAnd the welfare of all beings.
To live on earth more lightly and less violentlyin the food, products, and energy I consume.
To draw strength and guidance from the living Earth,the ancestors, the future generations,and my brothers and sisters of all species.
To support others in our work for the worldand to ask for help when I need it.
To pursue a daily practicethat clarifies my mind, strengthens my heart,and supports me in observing these vows.
~ Joanna Macy, from Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in Without Going Crazy
Observation Point, Virgin River Valley, Zion National Park – photo by eblisgalea, bigstockphoto.com
There are theoretical descriptions showing how tasks can be accomplished by entangled groups without the members of the group communicating with each other in any conventional way…Some even propose that the entire universe is a single, self-entangled object.
~ Dean Radin
Vernal Falls, Yosemite National Park – photo by neillang, bigstockphoto.com
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