Wonder on deep ecology

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

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +1000

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.

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +1000

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...

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +1000

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.

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +1000

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...

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +1000

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 ...

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +1000

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

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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?

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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

Please Call Me by My True Names

Thu, 02 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

“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.

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

“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 Jeffers, “The Answer”

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.

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

“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

Sun, 28 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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."

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

“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..."

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

“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 roots in a spiritual practice that holds life sacred and encourages joyful communion with all your fellow beings, facing the enormous challenges ahead becomes nearly impossible.” – Joanna Macy

source World as Lover, World as Self: A Guide to Living Fully in Turbulent times (ed. Parallax Press, 2007) - ISBN: 9781888375718

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

Thu, 29 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

“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 immense variety of sources of joy opened through increased sensitivity toward the richness and diversity of life, through the profound cherishing of free natural landscapes.” - Arne Naess

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

Thu, 29 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

“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 Seed

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