Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.
~ John Muir
Spirit
on lotus leaves
this world’s dewdrops
are warped-Issa, 1819
(Looking into the eye of a horse.)
A lovely horse is always an experience… It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words.
~ Beryl Markham
There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of bodies, of body on body, wind on snow, rain on trees, wave on stone. It is the language of dream, gesture, symbol, memory. We have forgotten this language. We do not even remember that it exists.
~ Derrick Jensen
The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair admist the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Painted Mines. Colorado.)
I have a friend who feels sometimes that the world is hostile to human life — he says it chills us and kills us. But how could we be were it not for this planet that provided our very shape? Two conditions — gravity and a livable temperature range between freezing and boiling — have given us fluids and flesh. The trees we climb and the ground we walk on have given us five fingers and toes. The ‘place’ (from the root plat, broad, spreading, flat) gave us far-seeing eyes, the streams and breezes gave us versatile tongues and whorly ears. The land gave us a stride, and the lake a dive. The amazement gave us our kind of mind. We should be thankful for that, and take nature’s stricter lessons with some grace.
~ Gary Snyder
(Sitting on the edge of the world II. Pike’s Peak, Colorado)
Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.
~ Herbert Otto
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art.
~ Charlie Parker
A little music to go with this can be found here. Enjoy. 🙂
(Wasp on goldenrod.)
No small part of the earth is insignificant. There is nothing in nature that doesn’t have purpose.
~ Gary Thorp
(A hole in the brambles.)
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
~ Hermann Hesse
Bountiful Healing 