Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
~ Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Milky Way – KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission
Devadana Sanctuary
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We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers our actions run as causes and return to us as results.
~ Herman Melville
Horsetail Fall, Yosemite – photo by Gary Hart Photography, used with permission
The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector by which disease passes into health. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.
~ Wendell Berry
Denali National Park – photo by Niebrugge Images, used with permission
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely, or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy amidst the simple beauty of nature. …I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.
~ Anne Frank
First Light, Yosemite Valley – photo by Gary Hart Photography, used with permission
As humans, water makes up seventy percent of our bodies. Water is who we are at our most elemental level. We must learn to respect water, as it is us.
~ J. Michael Read
Dungeness River, photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission’
It would not occur to me to exhort you to refrain from cutting off your leg. That wouldnt occur to me or to you, because your leg is part of you. Well, so are the trees in the Amazon Basin; they are our external lungs. We are just beginning to wake up to that. We are gradually discovering that we are our world.
~ Joanna Macy
Douglas Fir Rainforest, by Point North – Images by Frank George III, used with permission
Wherever you stand,
be the soul of that place.
~ Rumi
Sunset of gold along Washington’s north coast, photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
~ John Muir
Victoria Falls, Zambia – photo by Aubrey
When we see images of the earth from space, we see no boundaries between us, just this one blue planet, where climate change affects us all, where the global economy brings us all together. In the past, Tibet, surrounded by mountains, cherished its isolation. But, such isolation is outdated. Today, we need to take account of the well-being of the whole of humanity and preserving the health of the planet.
~His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Rialto Beach, photo by TAO Photography, used with permission
We have lived our lives by the assumption that what is good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it.
~ Wendell Berry
Plinth Peak, Pemberton Valley, BC – Marcel Pepin Photography, used with permission
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
Full Moon – photo by Crystal Garcia
Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Sunset at Rialto Beach, KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission
Create each day anew by clothing yourself with heaven and earth, bathing yourself with wisdom and love, and placing yourself in the heart of Mother Nature.
~ Morihei Ueshiba
Barns Creek, photo by TAO Photography, used with permission
What we have to do is to transform ourselves yet again into something that has never existed on this planet before, which is a kind of techno-indigenous people…We will use high technology and science to provide us with the energy we need, but theyll be sustainable solutions. Nature is not our enemy, it is our sustenance and we need it, and we need nature healthy for us to be healthy and to survive long-term, and thats the realization we have to come to and thats the next stage in evolution that we have to reach.
~James Cameron
El Capitan, Merced River, Yosemite – photo by Gary Hart Photography, used with permission
Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame.
~ W.B. Yeats, The Land of Heart’s Desire
Pacific Northwest Sunset, photo by Marcel Pepin Photography, used with permission
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