"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!

Feel yourself being
quietly drawn by
the deeper pull of
what you truly love.
~ Rumi

“You are in relationships with the external world that are, on the whole, incredibly harmonious. But we have this rather myopic way of looking at things. And we screen out from attention anything that is not immediately important to a scanning system based on sensing danger.”

~ Alan Watts

“We are all floating in a tremendous river and the river carries you along. Some of the people in the river are swimming against the current, but they are still being carried along. Others have learned that the art of the thing is to swim with it. You have to flow with the river. There is no other way. You can swim against it, and pretend not to be flowing with it. But you still flow with the river.”

Swimming Headless

“When you know that you have to go with the river, suddenly you acquire—behind everything that you do—the power of the river.”

“You hear the sound of water… And that’s quite as important as anything I’ve got to say.”

~ Ecological Awareness (audio)

"Gratefulness is the key to a happy life, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more."

~ Brother David Steindl-Rast

Love that one, NADA!

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

~ Alan W. Watts
Art by Marleen Visser

It will never happen until all the humans are gone. Very sad, but believably true.

“Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone.”
— Margaret J. Wheatley

I love all these quotes, but we need to live them!

Let us do so!

"The Old Ones say, 'You are the greatest miracle on earth. Not because it is you, but because you are living.'

And do you know what? It is true: you are the greatest miracle on earth. Because you live now and here. Millions of people have lived before you. But you are living now – in these times of change. What a miracle, what a gift to live in these times."

~ Angaangaq Angakkorsuaq