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At present, in this vicinity, the best part of the land is not
private property; the landscape is not owned, and the walker
enjoys comparative freedom. But possibly the day will come when
it will be partitioned off into so-called pleasure-grounds, in
which a few will take a narrow and exclusive pleasure only--when
fences shall be multiplied, and man-traps and other engines
invented to confine men to the PUBLIC road, and walking over the
surface of God's earth shall be construed to mean trespassing on
some gentleman's grounds. To enjoy a thing exclusively is
commonly to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it. Let
us improve our opportunities, then, before the evil days come.
~HD Thoreau, prophetic. 
 
 
== "What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath
of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across
the grass and loses itself in the sunset." 
Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator ==
I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos.<BR>
So nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples <BR>
and forests are my cathedrals. Being at one with nature. <BR>
Mikhail Gorbachev
NAVAJO SWEATHOUSE CHANT<BR>
The earth has been laid down, the earth has<BR>
been laid down<BR>
The earth has been laid down, it has been made.<BR>
The earth spirit has been laid down<BR>
It is covered with growing things, it has<BR>
been laid down.<BR>
The earth has been laid down, it has been<BR>
made.<BR>
The sky has been set up, the sky has been set up<BR>
The sky has been set up, it has been made.<BR>
The mountains have been laid down, the<BR>
mountains have been laid down<BR>
The mountains have been laid down, they have<BR>
been made.<BR>
The waters have been laid down, the waters<BR>
have been laid down<BR>
The waters have been laid down, they have<BR>
been made.<BR>
The clouds have been set up, the clouds have<BR>
been set up<BR>
The clouds have been set up, they have been<BR>
made.<BR>
'I settled at Cold Mountain long ago,<BR>
Already it seems like years and years.<BR>
Freely drifting, I prowl the woods and streams<BR>
And linger watching things themselves.<BR>
Men don't get this far into the mountains,<BR>
White clouds gather and billow.<BR>
Thin grass does for a mattress,<BR>
The blue sky makes a good quilt.<BR>
Happy with a stone underhead<BR>
Let heaven and earth go about their changes.'<BR>
- ---COLD MOUNTAIN<BR>
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'Don't kill the fly!<BR>
Look-----it's begging you,<BR>
wringing it's hands and feet!'<BR>
- -ISSA
"...grizzly bears and wolves every night, The distant howl of a large<BR>
wolf sounds much like the hooting of an owl, and the trinkling sound of<BR>
snow-rills is scarcley heard. The forrest is still, except now and then the<BR>
fall of a pine cone, sounding like a stone thrown. At dusk, the howl of <BR>
approaching wolves is heard, coming up the Western dell; but the dogs<BR>
take no notice of them, till they are quite near. They are accustomed to<BR>
their howlings..."<BR>
- J. Goldsborough Bruff, 1850<BR>
- Explorer
``The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living. Of course I do not here speak of that beauty that strikes the senses, the beauty of qualities and appearances; not that I undervalue such beauty, far from it, but it has nothing to do with science; I mean that profounder beauty which comes from the harmonious order of the parts, and which a pure intelligence can grasp.''
-Henri Poincaré
``Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of human life is to grasp as much as we can out of the infinitude.''
-Alfred North Whitehead
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The First Letter Of Columbus - 1490's<BR>
"And therefore I followed the coast for one hundred and<BR>
seven leagues to the point where it ended. And from that cape, I saw<BR>
another island, distant eighteen leagues from the former, to the east, to<BR>
which I at once gave the name "Espanola". And I went there and followed<BR>
it's northern coast, as I had in the case of Juana, to the east -<BR>
ward for one hundred and eighty-eight great leagues in a straight line.<BR>
This island and all the others are very fertile to a limitless degree, and<BR>
this island is extremely so. In it there are many harbors on the coast<BR>
of the sea, beyond comparison with others which I know in<BR>
Christendom, and many rivers, good and large, which is marvelous.<BR>
Its lands are high, and there are in it many sierras and very<BR>
lofty mountains, beyond comparison with the island of Tenerife.<BR>
All are most beautiful, of a thousand shapes, and all are accessible.<BR>
Espanola is a marvel."<BR>
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Return to the Source
'Empty yourself of everything.<BR>
Let your mind be at peace.<BR>
While ten thousand things rise and fall,<BR>
:the Self contemplates their return.<BR>
Each of them grows and flourishes and<BR>
:then returns to the source.<BR>
Returning to the source is stillness,<BR>
:which is the way of nature.'
::::Lao Tzu (c.604-c.531bce), from the Tao Te Ching, China
==Links==
Other Peace Wiki pages:
 
 
 Stories
 Shamanism
 Nature
 Solitude
 Visual Haiku
 The Papalagi
 
Nature Related Wikia: Green Knowledge