I tried to discover, in the rumour of forests, words that other people could not hear, and I listened to the revelation of their harmony.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Cape Cod Woods – photo by Devadana Sanctuary
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The shamans believe that long ago, in the invisible world,
the blueprint of creation was drawn. Chaos was returned to order,
into the cosmos, through the actions of Earthkeepers who were
able to dream new worlds into being.
~ Alberto Villoldo
Mt. St. Helens – photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission
For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us.
~ Richard H. Baker
Moonless Night and Milky Way, Grand Canyon – photo by Don Smith Photography, used with permission
We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the Universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of Nature, a unique action of the total Universe.
~ Alan Watts
Keyhole Arch, Pfeiffer Beach – photo by Don Smith Photography, used with permission
People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena. To see one in all and all in one is to break through the great barrier which narrows ones perception of reality.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Photo by Zastrozzi Dh, used with permission
There are places where if you talk to a plant they’d think you’re crazy. But in our way, its just good manners. What would the world look like if a developer, poised to convert a meadow into a shopping mall, had to first ask the permission of the goldenrod and the meadowlarks and had to abide by the answer?
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
Grand Teton National Park – photo by Don Smith Photography, used with permission
Like trees who share the same root system, we are but individual expressions of the greater whole. When we raise a revolution in our personal psyche, we are serving the quickening of collective consciousness.
~ Dreamwork with Toko-pa
Jasper National Park, Canada – photo by Devadana Sanctuary
At times I feel as if I am spread out over the landscape and inside things, and am myself living in every tree, in the splashing of the waves, in the clouds and the animals that come and go, in the procession of the seasons.
~ Carl Gustav Jung
Olallie Lake- photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission
We have all but forgotten that life is a rich and mysterious coming together of many worlds. We have lost sight of what the ancient priestesses and shamans knew, that the forms of our visible world have their roots in unseen dimensions, and that it is in these unseen dimensions that the primal energies of life lie. In our forgetting, we have lost the wholeness of life, and we have cut ourselves off from the real forces that shape our world. But when we are present in life, free from demands or agendas, when we allow life to unfold according to its own inner principles, we open up a doorway again between the worlds. Within our consciousness the inner and outer, the visible and the unseen worlds, can come together and speak to each other, and our split-apart world can become whole again.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Grand Canyon Thunderstorm, photo by Don Smith Photography, used with permission
Human beings are the earth becoming selfaware. We are midwives of the garden: tilling the soil that it might breathe and moisten and, through the planting of seed, give birth to new life. Each generation of flora contains the seeds of promise for the next, and it is our task to preserve that promise by protecting those seeds.
~ Rabbi Rami Shapiro
Ireland – photo by Devadana Sanctuary
The roots of all living things are tied together. Deep in the ground of being, they tangle and embrace…. If we look deeply, we find that we do not have a separate self-identity, a self that does not include sun and wind, earth and water, creatures and plants, and one another.
~ Joan Halifax
Summer Wildflowers and Alps – photo by Don Smith Photography, used with permission
There is one thing that we are certain about and that is that we are all surrounded by a profound mystery. And in some strange way we are asked to participate in this mystery and to collaborate with it.
~ Cecil Collins
Sunset at Palouse Falls – photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission
When I Am Among the Trees
When I am among the trees,
especially the willows and the honey locust,
equally the beech, the oaks and the pines,
they give off such hints of gladness,
I would almost say that they save me, and daily.
I am so distant from the hope of myself,
in which I have goodness, and discernment,
and never hurry through the world
but walk slowly, and bow often.
Around me the trees stir in their leaves
and call out, “Stay awhile.”
The light flows from their branches.
And they call again, “It’s simple,” they say,
and you too have come into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled with light, and to shine.
~ Mary Oliver
Central Park Tree People – photo by Devadana Sanctuary
The decoding of the human genome tells us that we are indeed related to the animals, the insects, and the plants, and that, like it or not, Earth is where we belong.
~ Ian McCallum, Ecological Intelligence: Rediscovering Ourselves in Nature
Upper Kentucky Falls, Siuslaw National Forest – photo by Sandy’s NW Hiking Photos, used with permission
May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder.
~ John ODonohue
Photo by TAO Photography, used with permission
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