EarthLove

Sharing Songs of Earth and Sky

Imagination Itself

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“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself”.

~William Blake

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Image: Foggy Morning at Crater Lake by Nancy Lankston

Divine Feminine, Creator and Mother

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“It’s been said that the Mother 
Earth was the first Indigenous 
Woman. 

After all, she is the original life 
giver. Her blood our fresh water, 
flows like so many veins and 
capillaries, forming rivers and 
tributaries that sustain us. 

We evolved to exist in unison, 
forever linked and connected as 
relations. We are a part of her, 
star-dust children of the Sky and 
Earth. 

She is the Divine Feminine, 
Creator, and Mother. 
There is no humanity without 
her.”

~Ruth H Hopkin

Your Book Of Prayers

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“When they ask to see your gods
your book of prayers
show them lines
drawn delicately with veins
on the underside of a bird’s wing
tell them you believe
in giant sycamores mottled
and stark against a winter sky
and in nights so frozen
stars crack open spilling
streams of molten ice to earth
and tell them how you drink
a holy wind of honeysuckle
on a warm spring day
and of the softness
of your mother who never taught you
death was life’s reward
but who believed in the earth
and the sun
and a million, million light years
of being…”

–JL Stanley

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Gratitude

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Spiral Speak by Sam Brown

“Every flower, forest, river, cloud, child, friend, foe and family member is rare and unique. If we slow our thoughts down (and are mindful) then every moment offers an opportunity to connect deeply with this miracle of LiFE, to experience love, joy and gratitude for just BEING here, right now, on our beautiful blue planet”

~Christopher Chase

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A World Without Butterflies

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‘I do not want to live in a world without butterflies.
Without the intricate eyes and velvety wings,
graceful splashes of color dancing on the breeze.
Airy, delicate keepers of hope.
Metamorphic symbols of change, growth, maturation.

… I do not want this world without the butterflies.
I could not bear the wailing of flowers.’

~Christina M. Ward,
‘A World Without Butterflies’

Lost

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Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you
are not lost. Where you are is called Here,
and you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I have made this place around you.
If you leave it, you may come back again, saying Here.
No two trees are the same to Raven.
No two branches are the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
you are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows
where you are. You must let it find you.

–David Wagoner,
Collected Poems, 1976

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image: Wheelhouse
by NancyL