It’s time for an older story to be brought back, one that reminds us that every molecule in our body was once part of a star.
– Camille Seaman
Meteor Through Milky Way, photo by Mirwais Azami Photography, used with permission
Devadana Sanctuary
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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
Double Rainbow, Yosemite Valley – photo by Gary Hart Photography, used with permission
Every tradition includes teachings that expand the self in widening circles of identification. You can learn to draw the circle of the self so wide that the body of earth becomes your larger body, with the rivers like your veins, the rain forests your lungs. Through our desire to protect what we love, we can recognize our interconnectedness with all life.
~ Joanna Macy
Quinault Rainforest – photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission
You are a part, a piece, of an eternal, infinite being, an aspect or modification of it This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole This, as we know, is what the Brahmins express in that sacred, mystic formula which is yet really so simple and so clear; tat tvam asi, You are That
The plurality that we perceive is only an appearance; it is not real. Vedantic philosophy has sought to clarify it by a number of analogies, one of the most attractive being the many-faceted crystal which, while showing hundreds of little pictures of what is in reality a single existent object, does not really multiply that object
~ Erwin Schrödinger, Quantum Physicist
Half Dome – Yosemite, photo by Gary Hart Photography, used with permission
The universe is composed of subjects to be communed with, not of objects to be exploited. Everything has its own voice. Thunder and lightening and stars and planets, flowers, birds, animals, trees – all these have voices, and they constitute a community of existence that is profoundly related.
~ Thomas Berry
Island at Salt Creek Beach – photo by TAO Photography, used with permission
It is because our own human existence is so dependent on the help of others that our need for love lies at the very foundation of our existence. Therefore we need a genuine sense of responsibility and a sincere concern for the welfare of others.
~The Dalai Lama
Photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission
You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.
~ Chief Seattle
Yosemite Valley – photo by Gary Hart Photography, used with permission
Ecology and spirituality are fundamentally connected because deep ecological awareness, ultimately, is spiritual awareness.
~ Fritjof Capra
Near Wallace Falls, KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission
Every living being is connected intimately, and from this intimacy follows the capacity of identification, and as its natural consequence, the practice of non-violence.
~ Arne Naess
Sunrise, Mt. Baker – photo by Marcel Pepin Photography, used with permission
When we speak of Nature it is wrong to forget that we are ourselves a part of Nature. We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.
~ Henri Matisse
Photo by Zastrozzi Dh Photography, used with permission
Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
~ Leibniz
Haystack Rock, Oregon – photo by Mirwais Azami Photography, used with permission
I don’t know what your destiny will be, But one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Sunset Blues – photo by Mirwais Azami Photography, used with permission
And the poorest twig on the elm-tree
was ridged inch deep with pearl.
The Mall, Central Park – photo courtesy of James Tomaszewski
See how nature trees, flowers, grass grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
~ Mother Teresa
Rimrock Lake – KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission
When we pay attention to Nature’s music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
Eclipse of the Moon, Carnationa, WA – photo by Mirwais Azami Photography, used with permission
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