“The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.”
~Edward Abbey
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image: Wild Mountain Bergamot
by Maggie
“To connect with God, we first have to connect with nature, and to connect with nature, we have to awaken to the dark. That is why he (Rebbe Nachman) advised his disciples to follow a solitary path into the darkness outside the city, and to enlist the aid of plants and flowers once they got there. To follow nature and return to nature—that itself was the path to God.”
~Clark Strand, Waking Up to the Dark,
Ancient Wisdom for a Sleepless Age
“We have to shift our attitude of ownership of nature
to relationship with nature. The moment you change
from ownership to relationship,
you create a sense of the sacred.”
~Satish Kumar
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#WeDontOwnNature
#relate
#listen
#honor
#love
Image: Meadows & Mountains
by Maggie
#EarthArt
#ProtectandHonorOurEarth
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#longestday
#celebrate
#sunshine
#summer
#fairies
#magic
#light
#power
#yang
#revel
#play
#joy
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Summer Solstice is June 20th, 2021.
(in US)
Image: Puck and Dancing Fairies
by Richard Dadd, (~1840)
‘When I look into the eyes of an animal, I do not see an animal.
I see a living being. I see a friend. I feel a soul.’
~Anthony Douglas Williams
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Image: Kim Schandorff via Getty Images