Ecological consciousness requires a deep respect for the natural world and all things within it. It's generally understood to be a term which reflects the psyche of an individual in relationship to and with Nature.
"Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world."
"The structure of the world itself, it functions on natural law, and the natural law is a powerful regenerative process. Its a process of regeneration that continues and grows and is endless. Its absolutely endless if everyone agrees to the law and follows the law. But if you challenge the law, and you think you are going to change the law, then you are bound to failure…"
~ John Trudell, Native American activist
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"The fundamental illusion that modern humans need to wake up from now is the idea that we are somehow separate from Nature. We are not separate, we are Nature herself, in human form. We are a part of a greater Earth community, children of this living planet. Once this understanding becomes "common sense" for high technology cultures and civilizations, humanity will be able to solve the problems we've created, by believing we were somehow superior to other species and separate from our Mother, the Earth."
~ Christopher Chase
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“We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.”
~ Andy Goldsworthy
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"When we speak of Nature it is wrong to forget that we are ourselves a part of Nature. We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire Universe."
~ Henri Matisse
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"We are life. We are nature. We are Universe. Self-reflexive consciousness allows us different perspectives on this ever-transforming and evolving whole we participate in — this all that we are reflections of. We bring forth a world together, as embodied manifestations of the universe co-creating the world through how we participate and what we pay attention to and care about."
~ Daniel Christian Wahl
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“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.”
~ Joseph Campbell
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"Look deep into Nature and you will understand everything better."
~ Albert Einstein
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"Allow Nature's peace to flow into you, as sunshine flows into trees."
~ John Muir
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"Be still, and the earth will speak to you."
~ Navajo proverb
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"Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world."
~ Robert Hunter
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It will never happen until all the humans are gone. Very sad, but believably true.
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
~ Alan W. Watts
Art by Marleen Visser
"Gratefulness is the key to a happy life, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more." ~ Brother David Steindl-Rast
Someone used the fungus growing on the tree to create artwork and the results are magical.
“You are in relationships with the external world that are, on the whole, incredibly harmonious. But we have this rather myopic way of looking at things. And we screen out from attention anything that is not immediately important to a scanning system based on sensing danger.”
~ Alan Watts
“We are all floating in a tremendous river and the river carries you along. Some of the people in the river are swimming against the current, but they are still being carried along. Others have learned that the art of the thing is to swim with it. You have to flow with the river. There is no other way. You can swim against it, and pretend not to be flowing with it. But you still flow with the river.”
Swimming Headless
“When you know that you have to go with the river, suddenly you acquire—behind everything that you do—the power of the river.”
“You hear the sound of water… And that’s quite as important as anything I’ve got to say.”
~ Ecological Awareness (audio)
Feel yourself being
quietly drawn by
the deeper pull of
what you truly love.
~ Rumi
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
— Margaret Mead
“The Earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations.”
— John Paul II
“Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.”
— John Ruskin
“Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.”
— President Jimmy Carter
“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of a difference you want to make.”
— Jane Goodall
A blessed #EarthDay to all. #EveryDayIsEarthDay
#LoveMotherEarth
"Look deep into Nature, then you will understand everything better." ~ Albert Einstein
"See simplicity in the complicated. Seek greatness in small things. In the Universe, the difficult things are done as if they were easy." ~ Lao Tsu
"The basic laws of the Universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we can’t grasp them. There is a pattern in creation." ~ Albert Einstein
"The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics." ~ Galileo Galilei
“Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.”
― Kahlil Gibran, "Mirrors of the Soul".
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