“Once I traveled far above the earth. This beloved planet we call home was covered with an elastic web of light. I watched in awe as it shimmered, stretched, dimmed, and shined, shaped by the collective effort of all life within it. Dissonance attracted more dissonance. Harmoney attracted harmony. I saw revolutions, droughts, famines, and the births of new nations. The most humble kindnesses made the brightest lights. Nothing was wasted.”

~ Joy Harjo

“Turn your face toward the sun and the shadows will fall behind you.”

― Maori Proverb

lovely comments here and i want to add one recent saying from Prem Rawat.

 ' Love has no future: it is now or never.'

you are so right, love is now and always.

Thanks, Desmond!

Beautiful, John!

"The Universe is composed of subjects to be communed with, not objects to be exploited. Everything has its own voice. Thunder and lightening and stars and planets, flowers, birds, animals, trees, ~~ all these have voices, and they constitute a community of existence that is profoundly related."

―Thomas Berry

Photo and leaf art: Deepak Joshi

"Everything that is in the heavens, on earth, and under the earth is penetrated with connectedness, penetrated with relatedness."

~ Hildegard von Bingen

“If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.”

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

"Whenever I touch a flower, I touch the sun and yet I don't get burned. When I touch the flower, I touch a cloud without flying to the sky. When I touch the flower, I touch my consciousness, your consciousness, and the great planet Earth at the same time.

The miracle is possible because of insight into the nature of interbeing. If you really touch one flower deeply, you touch the whole cosmos. The cosmos is neither one nor many. When you touch one, you touch many, and when you touch many, you touch one.."

~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Cultivating the Mind of Love

Photo by John Kolenberg

Both so beautiful, the image and Thich Nhat Hanh quote!

Thanks a lot!

This is what regenerative farming can look like. This is a picture of the Eden Project in Cornwall, England. Unlike conventional monoculture planting, this polyculture system diversifies the soil life, making plants less susceptible to pests and disease. (Photo by Franie Treetops @ Flickr).

Regenerative farming applies the Buddhist wisdom of pratītyasamutpāda (dependent origination) and inter-being to agriculture. One could also describe this as aligning with the ecological wisdom of Nature, what some African cultures call "ubuntu" - the Indigenous wisdom that all LIFE is interdependently related as a whole, and thrives best as One family - 

I love these poistings!

Thanks, Luna and Nada!

Great quotes and so true!

Thank You all for these many beautiful quotes about Nature❣️🌈 ∼

Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Art by David Galchutt

"No tree has branches so foolish as to fight among themselves."

Ojibway saying..

“We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.” ~Andy Goldsworthy

We need to learn to love Nature

For nature to love us, we need to love it, before!

great pics Carmen 

"If a mystic is one who is sensibly or even sensuously aware of his inseparability as an individual from the total existing universe, he is simply a person who has become sensible, aware through his senses of the way ecologists see the world. So when I’m in academic circles I don’t talk about mystical experience. I talk about ecological awareness. Same thing."

- Alan Watts

Image: "The Lover’s World" (1905), oil on canvas by British painter Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1872-1945).

Beautiful image and great and true thought!

"Every child is born in the garden of humanity as a flower. Each flower differs from every other flower. There are many messages in our society that tell us, even when we’re young people, that there’s something wrong with us and that if we just buy the right product, or look a certain way, or have the right partner, that will fix it. As grown-ups, we can remind young people that they’re already beautiful as they are; they don’t have to be someone else." ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

“Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.”

― Kahlil Gibran, "Mirrors of the Soul".

"Look deep into Nature, then you will understand everything better." ~ Albert Einstein

"See simplicity in the complicated. Seek greatness in small things. In the Universe, the difficult things are done as if they were easy." ~ Lao Tsu

"The basic laws of the Universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we can’t grasp them. There is a pattern in creation." ~ Albert Einstein

"The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics." ~ Galileo Galilei

I love these new  pictures, Nada

There is nothing like the charm of children playing and encountering new things!

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
— Margaret Mead

“The Earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations.”
— John Paul II

“Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.”
— John Ruskin

“Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.”
— President Jimmy Carter

“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of a difference you want to make.”
— Jane Goodall

A blessed #EarthDay to all. #EveryDayIsEarthDay
#LoveMotherEarth 

All so true thoughts, Nada, thanks a lot!

What a great blesing, Nada!