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Sharing Songs of Earth and Sky

The Healing Power of Nature

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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.

~Rachel Carson

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Image: Stone Face, Garden of the Gods
by Nancy Lankston

We Have A Beautiful Mother

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We have a beautiful mother
Her hills are buffaloes; Her buffaloes hills.
We have a beautiful mother
Her oceans are wombs; Her wombs oceans.
We have a beautiful mother
Her teeth the white stones at the edge of the water;
The summer grasses her plentiful hair.
We have a beautiful mother
Her green lap immense
Her brown embrace eternal
Her blue body everything we know.

~Alice Walker

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Bee Magic

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Photo by Gavin Mackintosh South Molton, United Kingdom

“There is one masterpiece, the hexagonal cell, that touches perfection. No living creature, not even human, has achieved, in the centre of one’s sphere, what the bee has achieved on her own: and if intelligence from another world were to descend and ask of the earth the most perfect creation, I would offer the humble comb of honey.”

~Maurice Maeterlinck,
The Life Of The Bee, 1924

Breathing Starlight

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“You know why trees smell the way they do?” Murphy asked, looking up from her hammering. 

“Sap?” Logan guessed. “Chlorophyll?”

Murphy shook her head. “Stars. Trees breathe in starlight year after year, and it goes deep into their bones. So when you cut a tree open, you smell a hundred years’ worth of light. Ancient starlight that took millions of years to reach earth. That’s why trees smell so beautiful and old.”

~Frances O’Roark Dowell
‘Where I’d Like To Be’

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Photo by Ryan Hutton on Unsplash