Abundance I am abundantly blessed. Psalm 65:12-13 contains a message of the abundance that is found in the natural world: “The pastures of the wilderness overflow, the hills gird themselves with joy, the meadows clothe themselves with flocks, the valleys deck themselves with grain, they shout and sing together for joy.” Spending time in nature…
Category: magnificent nature
Nature Poems: “white heron rises over black water” by Mary Oliver
White heron rises over black water I wonder what it is that I will accomplish today if anything can be called that marvelous word. It won’t be my kind of work, which is only putting words on a page, the pencil haltingly calling up the light of the world, yet nothing appearing on paper…
“The legacy of trees”…. amazing article (and video 18 minutes)
Like humans, trees are extremely social creatures, utterly dependent on each other for their survival. And, as it is with us, communication is key. After scientists discovered pine tree roots could transfer carbon to other pine tree roots in a lab, ecology professor Suzanne Simard set out to figure out how they did…
MOTHER EARTH POEMS: “The Ocean of Blue” – A Poem of Beauty and Mystery by Kaitlin Siena Murray
“The Ocean of Blue” – A Poem of Beauty and Mystery A poem dedicated to the beauty and mystery of the oceans of our planet… The ocean of blue, the traveler, the explorer, it reaches every bay, every rock, every corner. It touches our souls for the life it brings the crashing waves a song they each…
NATURE POEMS: “Small bird on fire” by Pablo Neruda
“Small bird on fire” It was passed from one bird to another, the whole gift of the day. The day went from flute to flute, went dressed in vegetation, in flights which opened a tunnel through which the wind would pass to where birds were breaking open the dense blue air – and there, night…
POEMS: “The spirit is the bouquet of nature” by Joseph Campbell
art by Bridget Voth “The spirit is the bouquet of nature” The divine manifestation is ubiquitous, our eyes are not open to it. Awe is what moves us forward. Live from your own center. The divine lives within you. The separateness apparent in the world is secondary. Beyond the world of opposites is an…
INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES FOR EARTH DAY
Kahlil Gibran: “Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet, and the winds long to play with your hair.” Wendell Berry: “The earth is what we all have in common.” Thomas Fuller: “He that plants trees loves others beside himself.” Cree Indian proverb: “Only when the last tree has died…
Spirituality from Daily Word “Earth Care” (Espiritualidad de la Palabra Diaria “Cuidar de la Tierra”)
Earth Care I am blessed to be a caretaker of the earth. This Earth Day, I take time to recognize that I have a responsibility to this planet as one of its stewards. The abundance of God is all around me. As new leaves sprout and the flowers come into bloom again, I am awestruck….
LONG NATURE POEMS: “Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches?”
“Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches?” Have you ever tried to enter the long black branches of other lives — tried to imagine what the crisp fringes, full of honey, hanging from the branches of the young locust trees, in early morning, feel like? Do you think this world was…
A quote by Walt Whitman about Nature
“After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on – have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear – what remains? Nature remains; to bring out from their torpid recesses, the affinities of a man or woman with the open air, the trees, fields, the changes of…
NATURE POEMS: “A gift from the sky” Amira (“Un regalo del cielo”)
“The gift from the sky” In Nature’s solitude Observing the twilight aperture As the first stars begin to light up the sky The tree swallows fly To catch up their evening meal by the lake And soon they are joined by the bats In their frantic zig-zag Catching the invisible bugs Suddenly, behind…
