In the open space of democracy, we engage the qualities of inquiry, intuition, and love as we become a dynamic citizenry, unafraid to exercise our shared knowledge and power. We can dissent. We can vote. We can step forward in times of terror with a confounding calm that will shatter fear and complacency. . […]
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We humans are self-organizing systems, we do not have to tell our hearts when to beat. We have, in our collective history also developed many examples of stable, self-organizing communities, based on psychic structures, concepts of reverence, transcendence and the sacred, that permitted voluntary internalizing of restrain in our behavior . . . This ability
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“If we want to survive and to remember what it is to be human, then we need to establish a viable pattern of activity for the whole Earth community. This community should be governed by the principle that every being has three rights: the right to live; the right to occupy a habitat; and the
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When I come beneath the pines, into that particular dappled light, time slows, and I fall under their spell. My science brain and my intuitive brain are both alight with knowing. Is it the spaciousness of the leafy vaulted ceiling? Maybe the terpenoids in pine vapors exert a psychological influence, producing an altered state of
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The Nature of This Flower Is To Bloom Rebellious. Living. Against the Elemental Crush. A Song of Color Blooming For Deserving Eyes. Blooming Gloriously For its Self. Revolutionary Petunia. -Alice Walker
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Imagine [Earth] is your biological mother – because, in a very real sense, she is. Imagine the Sun is your biological father – because, in equally real, life giving ways, he is. Imagine that after the spirit of God touched them, your distant but brilliant father and 70-million-square-mile mother not only fell in love,
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Just look around yourself, really look, and the actual world will never let you down. – Robert Michael Pyle, Orion, March/April 2008
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“Since he had put aside his books, he had begun to feel the land like a living thing, a presence that never left him. The life and rhythm of it pulsed in his blood, in his skin, the tips of his fingers, the soles of his feet. When the first buds appeared on the trees,
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“I don’t think there is a way for those who work in service to the Earth – for environmentalists, ecologists – to really woo our culture back into a reciprocal or sustainable relation with the land until we draw folks back to our senses, because our sensing bodies are our direct contact with the rest
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Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of nature’s varied forms. – George Washington Carver
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