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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« The plants have enough spirit to transform our limited vision. » — Rosemary Gladstar
[via this morning's herbal tea / Traditional Medicinals' turmeric, ginger & meadowsweet]
Ecospirituality is a global, sacred, nondenominational movement aimed at strengthening our spiritual connection to nature, at changing our very view of what nature is.
~ Marcia Penner Freedman
"Whenever I touch a flower, I touch the sun and yet I don't get burned. When I touch the flower, I touch a cloud without flying to the sky. When I touch the flower, I touch my consciousness, your consciousness, and the great planet Earth at the same time.
The miracle is possible because of insight into the nature of interbeing. If you really touch one flower deeply, you touch the whole cosmos. The cosmos is neither one nor many. When you touch one, you touch many, and when you touch many, you touch one.."
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Cultivating the Mind of Love
Photo by John Kolenberg
reminds me of a Baha'i Faith quote :
« Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves of one branch. Deal ye one with another with the utmost love and harmony, with friendliness and fellowship. »
Baha'i its so beautiful & true plus poetically spoken..
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