Recognizing the dignity of each living thing, mobile or fixed, insect, animal, tree, or mushroom, has broadened my love for this world and diminished my need for a god in heaven. We have multitudes of gods on Earth.
~ Terry Tempest Williams, Erosion: Essays of Undoing (Sarah Crichton Books, October 8, 2019)
Live & Learn 
…truth be told. At long last.
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Truth it is!
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Shades of Eve’s shortsightedness, and unfortunately, only one “O happy fault!” shall have been granted mankind. If the authoress (or one of her beloveds) were a violinist, and a Stradivarius addressed to her arrived at her door, would she only respect the exquisite gift for it’s potential man-made music, but utterly ignore its maker AND gifter?
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Now that is a big question!
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beautiful. interesting, but not totally surprising that my post today is along the very same lines
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Shinto. Again we are virtually and cosmically aligned!
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I didn’t have you down as an agnostic…
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Yep.
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Could not agree more with all o’ y’all…
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Gorgeous photo. Great words. Thanks
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Thanks Linda. Agree on both.
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Nature is my church 🍂
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What amazing church!
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Beautiful and I think not only recognising, that’s easy to do from our phones and afar, but by actually being in nature and honouring it all and developing a deep respect and love affair over-time. 🧚🏽♂️☘️🌱🌼
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Well stated captured.
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Monday morning here
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Not yet not yet not yet.
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And with every breath and every deed, word, thought and step I take upon this planet, may all I am and all I do be a song of gratitude.
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Yes!
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