The earth is what we all have in common.
Wendell Berry
Today is Earth Day. For each of us, it has an individual meaning. It can be a remembrance of travel where the seas and air were crystal clear, where the animals roamed free, and there was nary a person near. It can be a reminder to be more environmentally conscious in our daily routine. It can be a personal call to escape your home for a bit of time and exercise in nature. It can be many things to each of us.
Whatever it means to you, I hope these photos and thoughts will inspire you, give us hope for a time we can all travel and explore freely again, and be thankful for this incredibly beautiful Earth in which we live.
“Keep close to Nature’s heart . . . and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.”
~ John Muir
“As I walk, as I walk
The universe is walking with me
In beauty it walks behind me
In beauty it walks below me
In beauty it walks above me
Beauty is on every side.”
~ Traditional Navajo Prayer
“We need the tonic of wildness – to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.”
~ Henry David Thoreau
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
~ Albert Einstein
“The earth has music for those who listen.”
~ William Shakespeare
Celebrate Earth!
