To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together – Barry Lopez, author
Devadana Sanctuary
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“Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.”
The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe.
“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.”
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
“Trees have from time immemorial been closely associated with magic. These stout members of the vegetable kingdom may stand for as long as a thousand years, and tower far above our mortal heads. As such they are symbols and keepers of unlimited power, longevity, and timelessness. An untouched forest, studded with trees of all ages, sizes and types, is more than a mysterious, magical place – it is one of the energy reservoirs of nature. Within its boundaries stand ancient and new sentinels, guardians of the universal force which has manifested on the Earth.”
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her … I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.
Gratitude for the gift of life is the primary wellspring of all religions, the hallmark of the mystic, the source of all true art….It is a privilege to be alive in this time when we can choose to take part in the self-healing of our world.
“Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.”
“Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths.”
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
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.
“Powerful interactions of this feeling-knowing-healing energy are taking place all the time between people, between species, and between people and the Earth.”