Reflections

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

To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots.

Our origins are of the Earth.

Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too.

In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the Earth.

To the dull mind all nature is leaden.

Each culture is just like a tree whose essence and whole potential are already contained in the seed.

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

“We must widen our vision to a christification of the galaxies, a new unity of all cosmic life.

“We are radically connected in the world.