Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Colorado, photo by Devadana Sanctuary
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Standing alone on a mountain top, it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make–leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents of piled stone–we all dwell in a house of one room…
~ John Muir
Montana woods, photo by Devadana Sanctuary
It has taken fifteen billion years to get you here. That is scientific fact. We are not just the products of our parents. Sixty percent of our body is hydrogen atoms. The hydrogen atoms in us go back to the fireball fourteen billion years ago. We have been around a long time, and it has been a great birthing process to bring us forward.
~ Matthew Fox
Alaska, photo by Devadana Sanctuary
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Death is nature’s way of making things continually interesting. Death is the possibility of change. Every individual gets its allotted lifespan, its chance to try something new on the world. But time is called and the molecules which make up leaf and limb, heart and eye are disassembled and redistributed to other tenants.
~ Peter Steinhart, The Company of Wolves
Alberta, Canada – photo by Devadana Sanctuary
The forces of nature, no matter how seemingly random, from storm clouds and lightning, to blowing snow and high winds, ultimately determine our well-being. All of Natures forces gift the surface of the Earth with subtle energy. All we have to do is touch it and become truly alive.
~From the movie, “Ground”
Yellow Branch Falls, SC – photo by Jeff Burcher Photography, used with permission
Trees are extraordinary revelations of the spirit in nature. And, given the multitude of ways that trees and their products benefit and enrich human culture, they are an especially appropriate symbol of the interdependence of spirit and nature.
~ Steven C. Rockefeller and John Elder
Elwha Valley – photo by TAO Photography, used with permission
…we each need to be the person who “loves and protects creation,” who remembers its sacred nature. We need to bring this song of love into our hearts and hands. Through our love for the Earth we can honor the call to climate action that comes from all faiths and from the single voice that is within all of humanity. We are all part of one living being we call the Earth and it desperately needs our love and attention.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Spray Park – Mt Rainier National Park, photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission
The Green Cathedral represents the sacred places, the silent spaces. It elevates the natural landscape to the respectful position it deserves.
It replaces doctrine and dogma. The Green Cathedral recognises the ruins of the past as part of present and future narratives. It attempts to recalibrate the senses and reconsider time. It celebrates the joy of the rural reverie. It is in all countries. It is open to everyone.
~ Benjamin Myers
Tree People of Central Park, photo by Devadana Sanctuary
We are not really separate from anything. This understanding, once it truly takes hold, profoundly changes our relationship to our natural circumstance and to each other.
~ Angelo Druda
Crashing Surf and Na’ Pali Cliffs, Kauai, Hawaii, photo by Don Smith Photography, used with permission
…The Earth needs both physical and spiritual attention and awareness, our acts and prayers, our hands and hearts. Life is a self-sustaining organic whole of which we are a part, and once we reconnect with this whole we can find a different way to live–one that is not based upon a need for continual distraction and the illusions of material fulfillment, but rather a way to live that is sustaining for the whole.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Linville Falls, NC – photo by Jeff Burcher Photography, used with permission
The Universe story is the quintessence of reality. We perceive the story. We put it in our language, the birds put it in theirs, and the trees put it in theirs. We can read the story of the Universe in the trees. Everything tells the story of the Universe. The winds tell the story, literally, not just imaginatively. The story has its imprint everywhere, and that is why it is so important to know the story. If you do not know the story, in a sense you do not know yourself; you do not know anything.
~Thomas Berry
Lake Moraine – Banff National Park, Canada – photo by Mirwais Azami Photography, used with permission
People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes. All is a miracle.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Silver Star Mountain, photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission
The goal of the Creator is for each entity to make a conscious choice to again seek Oneness, out of our own free will not because anyone else forced us to. If we are told what to do and what to believe, then we have learned nothing and will not make any progress. Perhaps the single most basic realization to make is that we live in a loving Universe. If we are all One Being, then it is foolish for us to hate anyone, as we are only hating ourselves.
~ David Wilcock
Glacier National Park, MT – photo by Chris Williams Exploration Photography, used with permission
There are times I catch myself believing that there is something that is separate from something else
~ Gregory Bateson
Double Rainbow Over Makahuena Arch, Poipu, Kauai, Hawaii – photo by Don Smith Photography, used with permission
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.
~ Thomas Merton
Cape Kiwanda, OR – photo by Chris Williams Photography, used with permission
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