Fungi are the grand recyclers of the planet and the vanguard species in habitat restoration.
~ Paul Stamets
Photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission
Devadana Sanctuary
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this energy [of oneness] has an impersonal nature and a global dimension that require that we shift our focus away from our own individual inner journey and give ourself to the work of the whole it demands that we live it in all aspects of our ordinary, everyday existence.
~Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Mill Creek, WV – photo by Jeff Burcher Photography, used with permission
There is action to be taken in the outer world, but it must be action that comes from a reconnection with the sacred – otherwise we will just be reconstellating the patterns that have created this imbalance.”
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Haystack Rocks – photo by Mirwais Azami Photography, used with permission
In the time of the Seventh Fire, a New People would emerge. They would retrace their steps to find the wisdom that was left by the side of the trail long ago. Their steps would take them to the elders, who they would ask to guide them on their journey. If the New People remain strong in their quest, the sacred drum will again sound its voice. There will be an awakening of the people, and the sacred fire will again be lit. At this time, the light-skinned race will be given a choice between two roads. One road is the road of greed and technology without wisdom or respect for life. This road represents a rush to destruction. The other road is spirituality, a slower path that includes respect for all living things. If we choose the spiritual path, we can light yet another fire, an Eight Fire, and begin an extended period of Peace and healthy growth.
~ The prophecy of the Seven Fires of the Anishnabe, written on the ancient wampum belt carekept by Grandfather William Commanda, named Chief of the Indians of the Americas in 1957, and founder of the Circle of All Nations
Yosemite – photo by Gary Hart Photography, used with permission
In the past, shamans, priests, and priestesses were the keepers of the sacred knowledge of life They helped people remember that all trees are divine and that all animals speak to those who listen.”
~ Ted Andrews, “Animal Speak”
Eastatoe Falls, NC – photo by Jeff Burcher Photography, used with permission
I believe the universe is one being; all its parts are different expressions of the same energy, and they are all in communication with each other, therefore parts of one organic whole … The whole is in all its parts so beautiful, and is felt by me to be so intensely in earnest, that I am compelled to love it, and to think of it as divine
~ Robinson Jeffers
Moonrise Through the Storm, Yosemite Valley – photo by Gary Hart Photography, used with permission
A genuinely ecological approach does not work to attain a mentally envisioned future, but strives to enter, ever more deeply, into the sensorial present. It strives to become ever more awake to the other lives, the other forms of sentience and sensibility that surround us in the open field of the present moment.
~ David Abram
Monument Valley, photo by Don Smith Photography, used with permission
The nomadic gatherer-hunters live in an entirely sacred world. Their spirituality reaches as far as all of their relations. They know the animals and plants that surround them and not only the ones of immediate importance. They speak with what we would call “inanimate objects,” but they can speak the same language. They know how to see beyond themselves and are not limited to the human languages that we hold so dearly. Their existence is grounded in place, they wander freely, but they are always home, welcome and fearless.
~ Kevin Tucker
North Cascades, photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission
More and more people are becoming aware that we must look at our “brokenness.” The trees, the rivers, the mountain, the rain, the earth, and the creatures of the fields and forests and seas have followed their paths of balancing all life. We know that in all creation, only a human family has strayed from the sacred way. We are the ones who must come back together to walk in the sacred way.
~ Kenneth Little Hawk , Native American Storyteller
Big Branch, WV – photo by Jeff Burcher Photography, used with permission
Plants have a memory, or, if you will, a spiritual memory. And with that memory comes a multitude of connection not often understood by those who wish to domesticate and manipulate memory of Mother Earth’s seeds.
~ Tiokasin Ghosthorse
Fern – Photo used with permission
We must treat fellow human beings as equal, that is very important, but also all beings who have capacity for feeling. So the innate desire for happiness that is the basis of human rights extends to all sentient beings, including animals and insects.
~The Dalai Lama
Morning – Olympic National Park, photo by TAO Photography, used with permission
If both human beings and the living planet are going to possess a flourishing future, gone are the days in which we can think of ourselves as the masters and controllers of nature. The alternative to control is a spirit of partnership, in which we would work in collaboration with natures living systems.
~ David Fideler
Classic Yosemite – photo by Gary Hart Photography, used with permission
There are many things to be grateful “for” but,
as I ripen with the seasons of life, the many reasons
blend into a sacred mystery. And, most deeply,
I realize that living gratefully is its own blessing.
~ Michael Mahoney
Oregon Coast – photo by Mirwais Azami Photography, used with permission
There is an endless net of threads throughout the universe…
At every crossing of the threads there is an individual.
And every individual is a crystal bead.
And every crystal bead reflects
Not only the light from every other crystal in the net
But also every other reflection
Throughout the entire universe.
~ Anne Adams
Milky Way, Grand Canyon – photo by Gary Hart Photography, used with permission
I like to experience the universe as one harmonious whole. Every cell has life. Matter, too, has life; it is energy solidified. The tree outside is life The whole of nature is life The basic laws of the universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we cant grasp them. There is a pattern in creation.
~ Albert Einstein
Beauty Mountain, WV – photo by Jeff Burcher Photography, used with permission
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