I long, as does every human being,
to be at home wherever I find myself.
~ Maya Angelou
Boquete, Panamá, photo by Devadana Sanctuary
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And that is just the point . . .
how the world, moist and beautiful,
calls to each of us to make a new and
serious response. That’s the big question,
the one the world throws at you every morning.
Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment?” ~ Mary Oliver Costa Rica – photo by Devadana Sanctuary Thanks for sharing these photos…
the pain we feel for our world is a living testimony to our interconnectedness with it We can open to the pain of the world in confidence that it can neither shatter nor isolate us, for we are not objects that can break. We are resilient patterns within a vaster web of knowing.
~ Joanna Macy
Jasper National Park – photo by Devadana Sanctuary
In their highest boughs the world rustles, their roots rest in infinity; but they do not lose themselves there, they struggle with all the force of their lives for one thing only: to fulfill themselves according to their own laws, to build up their own form, to represent themselves. Nothing is holier, nothing is more exemplary than a beautiful, strong tree.
~ Hermann Hesse
Redwoods – Photo by Devadana Sanctuary
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
Lake Maligne, Canada – photo by Devadana Sanctuary
I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
~ John Muir
Hidden Waterfall, Akaka Falls State Park, HI – photo by Gary Hart Photography, used with permission
If we recognize the sacred and embrace it within all of life, we will find that life will speak to us as it spoke to our ancestors. It will remind us of how to live in harmony with creation, and how to restore the balance that is intrinsic to life. This is the ancient wisdom of the Earth itself, the Earth which has evolved and changed over millennia, been through previous ecological shifts. Unless we return to this deep knowing, real sustainability will remain a concept rather than a lived reality. Thomas Berry speaks to this:
We need not a human answer to an earth problem, but an earth answer to an earth problem. The earth will solve its problems, and possibly our own, if we will let the earth function in its own ways. We need only listen to what the earth is telling us.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Mt. Rainier – photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission
Exhalation of moss, mycelium, black mould; wafted savor of a thousand earthly growths, damp, clinging, redolent; aroma of mighty roots, of invisible spawn and seed – all the vast stirring of the earths desire.
~ Virginia Garland
Ireland – photo by Devadana Sanctuary
The basic pattern of life is a network. Whenever you see life, you see networks. The whole planet, what we can term ‘Gaia’ is a network of processes involving feedback tubes. And the world of bacteria is critical to the details of these feedback processes, because bacteria play a crucial role in the regulation of the whole Gaian system.
~ Fritjof Capra
Tatoosh Range – photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission
In short, plants possess a highly developed root brain which works much as ours does to analyze incoming data and generate sophisticated responses…The plant neural net, or brain, is highly plastic when compared to ours.
~ Stephen Harrod Buhner, Plant Intelligence
Merriman Falls, photo by Sandy’s NW Hiking Photos, used with permission
To reenchant nature is not merely to gain a new perspective for its integrity and well-being; it is to throw open the doors to a deeper level of existence.
~ Alister E. McGrath
Moonbow and Big Dipper, Lower Yosemite Falls, Yosemite – photo by Gary Hart Photography, used with permission
We go to the sea at night and stand along the shore. We listen to the urgent roll of the waves reaching ever higher until they reach their limits and can go no farther, then return to an inward peace until the moon calls again for their presence on these shores. So it is with a fulfilling vision that we may attain?for a brief moment. Then it is gone, only to return again in the deepening awareness of a presence that holds all things together.
~ Thomas Berry
Coastline, photo by Skier Dude via wikipedia.com
Thanks for sharing these photos…
Everything is alive and is making choices that determine the future, so the world is constantly creating itself. With the wisdom and time for reflection that old age provides, we may discover unsuspected relationships.
~ Vine Deloria, Jr., Standing Rock Sioux
Lake Ann, North Cascades – photo by Sandy’s NW Hiking Photos, used with permission
We need to look deeply at things in order to see. When a swimmer enjoys the clear water of a river, he or she should also be able to be the river. If we want to continue to enjoy our rivers — to swim in them, walk beside them, even drink their water — we have to meditate on being the river. If we cannot feel the rivers, the mountains, the air, the animals, and other people from within their own perspective, the rivers will die and we will lose our chance for peace.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Yosemite – photo by Gary Hart Photography, used with permission
Our duty is wakefulness, the fundamental condition of life itself. The unseen, the unheard, the untouchable is what weaves the fabric of our see-able universe together.
~ Robin Craig Clark, The Garden
Hoh River Trail – photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission
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