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A tree is a thought, an obstruction stopping the flow of wind and light, trapping water, housing insects, birds, and animals, and breathing in and out. How treelike the human, how human the tree.

Animal, Insects, Light, Treelike, Water, Wind
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Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.

Constantly, Everything, Invites, Nature

Love life first, then march through the gates of each season; go inside nature and develop the discipline to stop destructive behavior; learn tenderness toward experience, then make decisions based on creating biological wealth that includes all people, animals, cultures, currencies, languages, and the living things as yet undiscovered; listen to the truth the land will tell you; act accordingly.

Animal, Creating, Life, Love, Love Life, Undiscovered

I like to think of the landscape not as a fixed place but as a path that is unwinding before my eyes, under my feet. To see and know a place is a contemplative act. It means emptying our minds and letting what is there, in all its mulitplicity and endless variety, come in.

Eye, Mean, Minds, Mulitplicity, See, Thinking

To trace the history of a river or a raindrop is also to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body. In both, we constantly seek and stumble upon divinity, which like feeding the lake, and the spring becoming a waterfall, feeds, spills, falls, and feeds itself all over again.

Body, Fall, Like, Mind, Rivers, Spring

I like big, open, spare landscapes. There's lots of room. Nobody bothers you. . . I feel as if I can think there.

Landscape, Landscapes, Lots, Open, Rooms, Thinking
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