Wonder

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic com...

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

Grief is praise. It is the way the heart acknowledges the beauty of what we have lost.

In the sanctuary of silence / beauty comes to life. / Freedom is the blossom. / Love is the perfu...

In the sanctuary of silence / beauty comes to life. / Freedom is the blossom. / Love is the perfume, / compassion its graceful way of walking.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. / Just keep going. No feeling is final.

Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once...

Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long ...

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

Every day I see or I hear something that more or less kills me with delight

Every day I see or I hear something that more or less kills me with delight.

I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention

I don’t know exactly what a prayer is. / I do know how to pay attention.

Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it

Instructions for living a life: / Pay attention. / Be astonished. / Tell about it.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and precious life?

The Gaia hypothesis is for those who like to walk or simply stand and stare

The Gaia hypothesis is for those who like to walk or simply stand and stare, to wonder about the Earth and the life it bears.

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

Please Call Me by My True Names

“Please call me by my true names, \ so I can hear all my cries and my laughter at once, \ so I can see that my joy and pain are one.” - Thich Nhat Hanh

Integrity is wholeness, the greatest beauty is / Organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe. Love that, not man apart from that.

“Integrity is wholeness, the greatest beauty is / Organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe. Love that, not man apart from that.” — Robinson …

The beauty of things was born before eyes and sufficient to itself; the heart-breaking beauty / Will remain when there is no heart to break for it.

“The beauty of things was born before eyes and sufficient to itself; the heart-breaking beauty / Will remain when there is no heart to break for it.” — Robinson Jeffers

This is the first, the wildest and wisest thing I know: that the soul exists

This is the first, the wildest and wisest thing I know: that the soul exists, and that it is built entirely out of attentiveness.

Quote: Joanna Macy; "Despair and gratitude can coexist; embracing both expands our capacity to act."

“Despair and gratitude can coexist; embracing both expands our capacity to act.” – Joanna Macy Source: Despair and Personal Power in the Nuclear Age (1983)

Quote: Joanna Macy; "When you look at what is happening to our world and it is hard to look at whats happening..."

“When you look at what is happening to our world-and it is hard to look at what’s happening to our water, our air, our trees, our fellow species-it becomes clear that unless you have some …

Quote: Arne Naess; “Now is the time to share with all life…”

“Now is the time to share with all life on our maltreated earth by deepening our identification with all life-forms, with the ecosystems, and with Gaia, this fabulous, old planet of ours. we need the …

Quote: John Seed; “once we realize that the nature within…”

“once we realize that the nature within and the nature without are continuous, then we too may share and manifest the exquisite beauty and effortless grace associated with the natural world” - John …