there is a livingness in nature

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Just now

A rock took fright

When it saw me.

It escaped 

By playing dead.

—Norbert Mayer

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There is more to our world than inanimate matter and human beings, there is a livingness in nature. 

[The world] can be seen in an entirely new way, if we perceive the rocks we pass without notice each day as alive and aware.

—Stephen Harrod Buhner
Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers

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People thousands of years ago had memorials for their dead loved ones carved into stone as if to whisper into the ages, “do you know that i loved them?” 

and we get to whisper back, thousands of years later, “i do. i do know that you loved them.“


—source unknown, sadly

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