Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art. ~ Seneca
[Image: Shop window at dusk, Rome, Italy.]
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As the days begin to grow shorter following the Fall Equinox in North America, migrating monarch butterflies set out on their long journey ~ as far as 2,000 miles ~ to escape the cold of Winter. They are the only butterflies to regularly migrate both north and south as birds do.
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What is your source of perennial joy? Do you have one? What thought, memory, image, or understanding can you rely on, do you trust to rekindle the wonder and magic for life you once felt as a child?
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When we are mindful of every nuance of our natural world, we finally get the picture: that we are only given one dazzling moment of life here on Earth, and we must stand before that reality both humbled and elevated, subject to every law of our universe and grateful for our brief but intrinsic participation with it. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert (from her biography of naturalist Eustace Conway)
[Image: View of Whidbey Island from Port Townsend, WA.]
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If you can stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
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If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
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Located in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Monte Bello Open Space Preserve (It. “Beautiful Mountain”) is a spectacular place for hiking, mountain biking, picnicking, photographing, and for enjoying panoramic views of Santa Clara Valley and beyond.
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When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego,
and when we escape like squirrels
turning in the cages of our personality
and get into the forests again,
we shall shiver with cold and fright
but things will happen to us
so that we don’t know ourselves.
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