As with most mornings I found myself sitting quietly reading my lesson in ACIM and reading a The Proof by James Twyman. This morning’s reading of the Proof Practice 11 – The Embrace of Oneness had been leading me deeper into understanding how to embrace every moment and cherish its...

Forests cover 31% of total land area while at the same time supporting 80% of terrestrial biodiversity that live in them. Many of the worlds’ most threatened and endangered animals live in these forests, making them crucial to sustaining ecosystems. Not only animals live in the forests, as...

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” – Lao Tzu In this hurly burly society of ours, we seem to find a need to do pretty much everything, and we must do it all now. Even though we’ve been given several handy-dandy tools to assist us in our...

“If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can’t help but learn.” – Bernie Siegel For as much damage as we may bring to the earth, through oil spills, pollution, or other forms of environmental degradation, nature always finds a way...

“It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.” – Oscar Wilde There are few who never stop and gaze at a beautiful mountainside vista or take in a sunset with a deep breath of solace. However, as much as we might appreciate nature for the...

“The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.” – Joseph Wood Krutch The constant circulation of matter and energy impels life to continue, forever flowing, forever changing, forever shifting...

“Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.” – Jimmy Carter Though every culture has different words for describing the various elements of nature, we can all appreciate the peace that it offers us and the...

“Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.” – John Lubbock Before books were bound, before they were even written, man gained his understanding of the...

“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.” – John Burroughs The natural world has a way of bringing peace to our minds and serenity to our souls. Left to its own devices, nature sustains itself through its primordial flow as life transforms...

“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.” - Buddha There is a well known axiom stating that the past is gone, the future is not yet, and this moment is a gift which...