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California fern. Ferns are ecological elders, going back to the early age after algae explorers first migrated onto land. Revering them now, we might stop disturbing their ancient burial sites, digging up their holy relics as coal. Instead we might c

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"We should consider each day lost in which we have not danced at least once." "I would only believe on a god who dances."
"If I can't dance, I don't want to be a part of your revolution." First two quotes from Nietzsche.

A grove of wild apple trees
bearing fruit. Elsewhere in the landscape,
a grove of peach trees
every bit as wild
which will come to fruition
in its time.

In the discourse of the peach trees
their peaches
refer to apples.
They speak of apples
and all

From a lecture by Gregory Bateson:

If I ask you how many fingers you have, you will probably answer, “Five.” That I believe to be an incorrect answer. The correct answer, I believe, is, “Gregory you are asking a question wrongly.&r

The Sino-Japanese character for "mind" is the same as the character for "heart" (心). Similarly, in Pali and Sanskrit, the same word ("citta") refers to both heart and mind. Thus, when a philosopher like Buddha spoke of &

Our world seems caught in the grips of a crisis of sacredness. What being isn't sacred? What tree isn't sacred? And yet look at what we have done and continue to do to trees and to so many beings. We have gone so far as to hang strange fruit from tre

“Though logic-choppers rule the town,
And every man and maid and boy
Has marked a distant object down,
An aimless joy is a pure joy,”
Or so did Tom O'Roughley say
That saw the surges running by.
“And wisdom is a butterfly
And not a

Cultivating the mind of beauty, we cultivate the mind of wisdom and love, and we enter into "the journey work of the stars." Our life takes on cosmic proportions, mystical participation.

As Whitman saw, a leaf of grass is no less than that

Horse is a spiritual keystone species. Just as an ecological keystone species has a special significance in landscapes of the Earth, a spiritual keystone species holds a special significance in the landscapes of the soul.

Horse was perhaps the first

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