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And here lies the crux of the matter: to say that nature is personal may mean not so much seeing the world differently as acting differently – or, to state it another way, it may mean interacting with more-than-human others in nature as if those others had a life of their own and then coming to see, through experience, that these others are living, interacting beings.
~ Priscilla Stuckey, “Kissed By A Fox”
Sunset at Ruby Beach – KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission
You are not separate from nature. We are all part of the One Life that manifests itself in countless forms throughout the universe, forms that are all completely interconnected.
~ Eckhart Tolle, from Stillness Speaks
Hurricane Ridge, Olympic National Park, WA – photo by Chris Williams Exploration Photography, used with permission
Walking in a sacred manner- is making a connection between your step and the heart beat of the world.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Bryce Canyon, Utah – photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission
There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.
~ Calvin Coolidge
Central Park, photo by Devadana Sanctuary
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
~Marcel Proust
Rainforest, New Zealand – photo by Mark Gray
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
~Mother Theresa
Silver Falls State Park, Oregon – photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission
It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. We are made to live together because of the interrelated structure of reality. Did you ever stop to think that you can’t leave for your job in the morning without being dependent on most of the world? You get up in the morning and go to the bathroom and reach over for the sponge, and that’s handed to you by a Pacific islander. You reach for a bar of soap, and that’s given to you at the hands of a Frenchman. And then you go into the kitchen to drink your coffee for the morning, and that’s poured into your cup by a South American. And maybe you want tea: that’s poured into your cup by a Chinese. Or maybe you’re desirous of having cocoa for breakfast, and that’s poured into your cup by a West African. And then you reach over for your toast, and that’s given to you at the hands of an English-speaking farmer, not to mention the baker. And before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you’ve depended on more than half of the world. This is the way our universe is structured, this is its interrelated quality. We aren’t going to have peace on earth until we recognize this basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Bandon, OR – photo by Mirwais Azami Photography, used with permission
All Humanity has to re-connect to their own Indigenous Roots of their lineage – to heal their connection and responsibility with Mother Earth and become a united voice.
~ Chief Arvol Looking Horse
Glacier Point Moonrise – photo by Gary Hart Photography, used with permission
Tree, gather up my thoughts
like the clouds in your branches.
Draw up my soul
like the waters in your root.
In the arteries of your trunk
bring me together.
Through your leaves
breathe out the sky.
~ by J. Daniel Beaudry
Sequoias – Photo by Devadana Sanctuary
May the earth continue to live;
May the heavens above continue to live;
May the rains continue to dampen the land;
May the wet forests continue to grow;
Then the flowers shall bloom
And we people shall live again.
~ Hawaiian Prayer
Boulder Creek Falls, Darrington, WA – photo by Mirwais Azami Photography, used with permission
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.
~Aristotle
Emerald Lake, British Columbia, Canada – photo by Jiyi Ren
I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the Universe. We were all made by the same hand, and we have the same soul.
~ Paulo Coelho
Bandon, OR – photo by Mirwais Azami Photography, used with permission
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.
~ Eleanora Duse
North Falls, Silver Falls State Park – KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission
Nature’s Intelligence expresses everywhere around us:
Individual bees are able to evaluate timing of events, spatial arrangements and communication from other bees in comparison to their own personal experience.
~ Jon Lieff, M.D.
Photo by TAO Photography, used with permission
For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone.
~Hermann Hesse
Ireland, photo by Devadana Sanctuary
