“I and this mystery, here we stand.”
-Walt Whitman “Song of Myself”
Tag Archives: quotes
Our Rarest Commodity
“As our world becomes increasingly polluted with noise, silence is becoming our rarest commodity. Through all the madness, how can we possibly hear what the Earth is so patiently trying to tell us? Wilderness is our only hope. The one place we can always come back to.”
-Scott Stillman
Truths of Being
“Marvel at the deep truths of being”
-Arthur C. Brooks
To Sing at Dawn
“Once upon a time… there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated.”
-Terry Tempest Williams
Three Things
“Three things cannot be long hidden:
The Sun, The Moon & The Truth
-Buddha
Scenes from Winter – A Gallery of Photos
“No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place”
-Zen Koan
“Snow was falling,
so much like stars
filling the dark trees
that one could easily imagine
its reason for being was nothing more
than prettiness.”-Mary Oliver
“Let us love winter
for it is the
Spring of genius”
–Pietro Aretino
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See Things As They Are
“I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home. I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as they are, grand and beautiful.”
-Henry David Thoreau
Just This Breath
“Settle in the here and now.
Reach down into the center
where the world is not spinning
and drink this holy peace.
Feel relief flood into every
cell. Nothing to do. Nothing
to be but what you are already.
Nothing to receive but what
flows effortlessly from the
mystery into form.Nothing to run from or run
toward. Just this breath,
Awareness knowing itself as
embodiment. Just this breath,
awareness waking up to truth.”-Danna Faulds
I Can Hear the Sunrise
I can hear the sunrise
gentle stirrings as she wakes
eyes fluttering open
after the long cold nightI can hear the sunrise
an explosion of color
full of passion and fury
and promiseI can hear the sunrise
boiling in the clouds
shimmering off
the wavesannouncing
the new day-Michael Traveler
For the Love of Bears – A Gallery of Photos
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I am enamored of bears. For as long as I can remember there’s been a love affair, a fetish, a respect, an honoring.
It’s a wondrous, humbling, mystical, and magical experience to see bears in the wild – living large and well, wild and free.
“If you talk with the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them, you will not know them, and what you do not know, you will fear. What one fears one destroys.”
– Chief Dan George“The grizzly is a symbol of what is right with the world.”
– Charles Jonkel“Bears are not companions of men, but children of God, and His charity is broad enough for both. Yet bears are made of the same dust as we, and breathe the same winds and drink of the same waters. A bear’s days are warmed by the same sun, his dwellings are overdomed by the same blue sky, and his life turns and ebbs with heart-pulsings like ours and was poured from the same fountain…”
– John Muir“Grizzly bears are the true monarchs of the wilderness. As a predator at the top of the food chain and an indicator species, they are a symbol of a healthy ecosystem. Where they roam undisturbed by humans, wilderness exists. By preserving grizzlies in the wild, we also preserve the habitat they need to survive. Grizzlies are ninety-nine percent gone from the lower forty-eight states as compared to populations from a century ago. Keeping these animals as a part of the natural ecosystem is healthy for all species, including humans.”
– Grizzly Discovery Center (www.grizzlydiscoveryctr.com)