Wednesday of Hope – In a World Full of Peril

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.

– J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Our Connection to Nature

“The need is for the connection to nature within ourselves; only then can we understand how to act toward nature outside ourselves.