“Out of the fragrant heart of bloom, The bobolinks are singing; Out of the fragrant heart of bloom The apple-tree whispers to the room, "Why art thou but a nest of gloom While the bobolinks are singing?” HeartArtRoomsTreeSingingApplesNestsGloomApple Trees Book:Poems Source: Poems
“It is a curious fact that out-of-door nature is to the beginner an enormously overloaded 'property room.' He sees, for instance, the myriad of leaves upon the tree long before he sees the tree at all.” LongFactsRoomsDoorsTreePropertyInstanceCuriousBeginnersOverloaded Author:John F. Carlson
“Is it possible for the rose to say, "I will give my fragrance to the good people who smell me, but I will withhold it from the bad?" Or is it possible for the lamp to say, "I will give my light to the good people in this room, but I will withhold it from the evil people"? Or can a tree say, "I'll give my shade to the good people who rest under me, but I will withhold it from the bad"? These are images of what love is about.” PeopleGivingLightEvilLove IsRoomsTreeRoseSmellShadeGood PeopleLampsFragranceEvil People Book:Awareness: Conversations with the Masters Source: Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
“Self carries grief as a pack mule carries the side bags, being careful between the trees to leave extra room.” SelfSidesRoomsGriefTreeCarefulExtrasBagsCarriePacksMules Author:Jane Hirshfield
“I help out at Tall Trees, which my aunt set up on the Central Coast. Its where intellectually impaired young people can paint. Their artworks sent to hospitals all over Australia to brighten up their rooms.” PeopleHelpingYoungRoomsTreePaintAustraliaHospitalsTallCoastAuntArtworkTall Trees Author:Jessica McNamee
“I once saw, on a flower pot in my own living room, the efforts of a field mouse to build a remembered field. I have lived to see this episode repeated in a thousand guises, and since I have spent a large portion of my life in the shade of a nonexistent tree I think I am entitled to speak for the field mouse.” ThinkingSpeakMy OwnRoomsEffortSawsTreeFieldsFlowerThousandRememberedPotShadePortionsEpisodesEntitledMiceLiving RoomGuise Author:Loren Eiseley
“There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is, weak or strong, and the thing which pleases us. Whatever is formed according to this standard pleases us, be it house, song, discourse, verse, prose, woman, birds, rivers, trees, room, dress, and so on. Whatever is not made according to this standard displeases those who have good taste.” MadeCertainSongHouseStrongRoomsBeautyGraceTreePleaseTasteStandardsBirdRiversWeakRelationDressesProseVersesDiscourseGood Taste Book:Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works Source: Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works
“We are capable of suffering with our world, and that is the true meaning of compassion. It enables us to recognize our profound interconnectedness with all beings. Don't ever apologize for crying for the trees burning in the Amazon or over the waters polluted from mines in the Rockies. Don't apologize for the sorrow, grief, and rage you feel. It is a measure of your humanity and your maturity. It is a measure of your open heart, and as your heart breaks open there will be room for the world to heal. That is what is happening as we see people honestly confronting the sorrows of our time.” PeopleWorldFeelsHeartSufferingHumanityWaterRoomsGriefCompassionBreakTreeCryMinesSorrowCapableHappeningsProfoundRageHonestlyHealBurningMaturityOur TimeOur WorldApologizingAmazonHeart BreakConfrontingOpen HeartInterconnectednessTrue Meaning Author:Joanna Macy
“Material things have closed boundaries; they are not accessible, cannot be penetrated, by things outside themselves. But one's existence as a spiritual being involves being and remaining oneself and at the same time admitting and transforming into oneself the reality of the world. No other material thing can be present in the space occupied by a house, a tree, or a fountain pen. But where there is mind, the totality of things has room; it is "possible that in a single being the comprehensiveness of the whole universe may dwell.” WorldMindMayWholeRealitySpiritualUniverseHouseSpaceRoomsExistenceTreeMaterialsOneselfBoundariesPensFountainTransformingTotalityAdmittingMaterial ThingsSpiritual BeingsFountain Pens Author:Josef Pieper