bmacDonald94

fulanigirl, 8 months ago to mastodon

#mastodon
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bmacDonald94, 8 months ago to random

“Action on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass

bmacDonald94, 8 months ago to random

“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”
― Frank Lloyd Wright, Truth Against the World: Frank Lloyd Wright Speaks for an Organic Architecture

bmacDonald94, 8 months ago to random

“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”
― William Blake

bmacDonald94, 8 months ago to random

“Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undisturbed. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

bmacDonald94, 9 months ago to random

“Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.”
― Robert Frost

bmacDonald94, 9 months ago to random

“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As longs as this exists, and it certainly will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

bmacDonald94, 9 months ago to random

Cut my literature "teeth" on this splendid author, still read from time to time

“Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'
Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

bmacDonald94, 9 months ago to random

“...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh

bmacDonald94, 9 months ago to random

”It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we, therefore, yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.”
Chief Sitting Bull

stevesilberman, 9 months ago to random

Oh, sad. Jay Thelin, whose #Psychedelic Shop helped launch the #hippie movement in SF's Haight-Ashbury (still my neighborhood), dies at 84. https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/jay-thelin-psychedelic-shop-owner-obituary-18301548.php

bmacDonald94, 9 months ago to random

“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.” – Chief Seattle

bmacDonald94, 9 months ago to random

"Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard."
Standing Bear

bmacDonald94, 9 months ago to random

One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?
Rachel Carson

melissabeartrix, 9 months ago to random

Sitting with the sun on my back ... At the nice cafe ... Yes I do have to walk past the transphobic asshole ... I have to show him I still live ... Giggles ... Provoking maybe, but I feel I shouldn't be ... Hugz

Hugz & xXx

ai6yr, 9 months ago to venturacounty

Torrential #downpour in my part of #VenturaCounty for about 10 minutes. Smells like #Hilo #Hawaii. Still coming down. (Audio file below)

bmacDonald94, 9 months ago to random

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Soren Kierkegaard

bmacDonald94, 9 months ago to random

"It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living."
Sir David Attenborough.

bmacDonald94, 9 months ago to random

We may hope that this will be the next major phase in the development of biology. Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject to the same cosmic forces that control all other life. Man's future welfare and probably even his survival depend upon his learning to live in harmony, rather than in combat, with these forces.
Rachel Carson

bmacDonald94, 9 months ago to random

"Mankind has gone very far into an artificial world of his own creation. He has sought to insulate himself, in his cities of steel and concrete, from the realities of earth and water and the growing seed. Intoxicated with a sense of his own power, he seems to be going farther and farther into more experiments for the destruction of himself and his world."
Rachel Carson

lzg, 9 months ago to random

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bmacDonald94, 9 months ago to random

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.
Rachel Carson

melissabeartrix, 9 months ago to random

No coffee art ... Pout ... No one loves me anymore pout

Hugz & xXx

bmacDonald94, 9 months ago to random

"What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?" –E.M. Forster

bmacDonald94, 10 months ago to random

Mother Nature will survive, I am sure. I am not certain about humanity.