EarthLove

Sharing Songs of Earth and Sky

Dirt Prayer

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Hold on to what is good, Even if it’s a handful of earth. Hold on to what you believe, Even if it’s a tree that stands by itself. Hold on to what you must do, Even if it’s a long way from here. Hold on to your life, Even if it’s easier to let go. Hold on to my hand, Even if I’ve gone away from you.

Pueblo Indian Prayer

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Photo by Kyle Ellefson on Unsplash

Eternal Sunrise, Eternal Sunset

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“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 L

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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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