Category: Meditations

“Keep close to Nature’s heart…and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.” —John Muir

Where is your favorite place to go to experience nature?

So much of the natural world feeds us, nurtures us and delights us, that it is easy to assume that the earth wants our comfort and happiness. One could argue that natural law favors diversity and interconnection and creativity, but comfort and safety are really not part of the package.

How have natural events taken a toll on your life?

“The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.” —Wendell Berry

How do you find pleasure in tending to the earth?

No artist was ever as inventive as evolution. The interactions of a time and environment have created a richness of diversity that is endlessly astounding. Why shouldn’t we have birds as big as horses or as small as bees?

What animal surprises and delights you?

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.” —John Keats

What does the earth say to you?