earthspeak

 

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Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

—Rabindranath Tagore

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Within this tree
another tree
inhabits the same body;
within this stone
another stone rests,
its many shades of grey
the same,
its identical
surface and weight.
And within my body,
another body,
whose history, waiting,
sings: there is no other body,
it sings,
there is no other world.


—Jane Hirshfield

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I came to realize clearly that mind is no other than

mountains and rivers and the great wide earth,

the sun and the moon and the stars. 

—Dogen

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