“The wind plays the world like an instrument. Blows through trees like flutes. But trees won’t grow in cement. And as heart beats bring percussion fallen trees bring repercussions. Cities play upon our souls like broken drums.”
― The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop
― The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop
“Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.”
― Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future
― Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future
“The passage into mystery always refreshes. If, when we work, we can look once a day upon the face of mystery, then our labor satisfies. We are lightened when our gifts rise from pools we cannot fathom. Then we know they are not a solitary egotism and they are inexhaustible.”
― The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
― The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
“Like all good mystics, Fly cautioned, “The more words I put on this the farther we can go from the reality I refer to.” He then offered his spiritual prescription: what we need to do is “just sit down, shut up, breathe, have eye contact, touch . . . ,” and falling silent, he put his hands on the earth.”
― Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future
― Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future
“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!”
― Don Quixote
― Don Quixote
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