January 2011
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Royal Poinciana Bliss
Only gratefulness, in the form of limitless openness for surprise, lays hold of the fullness of life in hope. —David Steindl-Rast
© Pamir Kiciman 2010
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“Because they are primeval, because they outlive us, because they are fixed,...”
– Kim Taplin (via bodymindandsoul)
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Thoreau Was Right: Nature Hones the Mind →
A long line of the world’s thinkers — from Immanuel Kant to William James to Deepak Chopra — have recommended we take walks in nature to relieve stress and refocus our thoughts. And nature writers — from Henry David Thoreau to John Muir to Edward Abbey — have extolled the restorative benefits of nature. “Everybody,” Muir said, “needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where...
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“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals....”
– Henry Beston (via pandacake) 