‘To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them
— the whole leaf and root tribe.’
~Henry Ward Beecher
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Forest Photo by Nancy Lankston
“This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.”
~John Muir
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Image: Mother’s Night Sunset
(eve of solstice)
by Nancy Lankston
“As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I’ll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I’ll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can”.
~John Muir
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Image: Vista, Great Sand Dunes National Park
by Nancy Lankston
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
#EarthLove
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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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