Rendezvous with Nature
My Awakening..
Living things do not exist in isolation but in ecological communities, in which all the members have evolved together into a fine balance of interdependence. The planet itself is one vast ecosystem in which life deeply affects, and is affected by, the atmosphere, the oceans, and even the solid crust. Human actions have seriously disrupted local and planetary ecosystems.
Our task now is to restore the lost balances. I do not believe in an afterlife in heaven. This earth is our only home, we can’t hope that God will provide us with a new earth if we wreck this one. The responsibility lies on our shoulders alone.
After a deep spiritual experience I found myself repeatedly seeking to be in the lap of mother nature, trekking through mountains, breathing fresh air, exploring virgin lush green forests, diving into hidden mountain streams and waterfalls, sleeping under the bright stars, ... I pity the homies and city-dwellers, they are missing out on something beautiful.
Our task now is to restore the lost balances. I do not believe in an afterlife in heaven. This earth is our only home, we can’t hope that God will provide us with a new earth if we wreck this one. The responsibility lies on our shoulders alone.
After a deep spiritual experience I found myself repeatedly seeking to be in the lap of mother nature, trekking through mountains, breathing fresh air, exploring virgin lush green forests, diving into hidden mountain streams and waterfalls, sleeping under the bright stars, ... I pity the homies and city-dwellers, they are missing out on something beautiful.
I think that I shall never see a poem lively as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day and lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear a nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain, who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me but only God can make a tree.
-Joyce Kilmer