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The Kingdom of Trees

Between heaven and earth, between mankind and the stars, lies the kingdom of trees; between that which gives us food, housing and work on the one hand and that which is incomprehensible
and unaccountable on the other.

–Trees in the History of Civilization

Trees are Sentinels
Guarding, Nurturing, Protecting
Bastions of Dignity
Breathing life
Providing shelter
Asking for nothing
Sacrificing everything

-K. Earle

Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them,
can learn the truth.
They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach
undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.

-Hermann Hesse, Wandering

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. Nothing is holier, nothing is more exemplary
than a beautiful, strong tree.

-H. Hesse, ibid

Trees, proud standing people
stretching fingertips to the sky, reaching, praying
glorious attention, breathing light.
strength shelter timeless confidence
bending and firm comforting …

-Wallace Stevens

Planting trees early in spring,
we make a place for birds to sing in time to come.
How do we know? They are singing here now.
There is no other guarantee that
singing will ever be.

-Wendell Berry

No wonder the hills and groves were
God’s first temples…

-John Muir

I hear the wind among the trees
Playing the celestial symphonies;
I see the branches downward bent,
Like keys of some great instrument.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire,
in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a
dancing tongue of flame
to warm the heart.

-Hal Borland

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

-John Muir

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Santa Monica, CA

Sat, Jan 27, 2024 – Sat, Apr 27, 2024

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New York, NY

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Melbourne, Australia

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NEW BOOK
D E V O T I O N

Reproduced in stunning color, these photographs honor the universal desire to create meaning in the midst of everyday life and offer viewers an opportunity to connect with their own spirituality—whatever form that takes.

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Geometry of Joy

Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
– Leo Tolstoy

And Joy is Everywhere;
It is in the Earth’s green covering of grass;
In the blue serenity of the Sky;
In the reckless exuberance of Spring;
In the severe abstinence of gray Winter;
In the Living flesh that animates our bodily frame;
In the perfect poise of the Human figure, noble and upright;
In Living;
In the exercise of all our powers;
In the acquisition of Knowledge;
in fighting evils…
Joy is there Everywhere.
– Rabindranath Tagore, 1861-1941

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning,
as if supported by the rays of the sun,
a bird settled on the fire escape,
joy in the task of coffee,
joy accompanied me as I walked.
– Anais Nin

There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone’s life.
– Sr. Mary Rose McGeady

Shared joy is a double joy
-Swedish Proverb

To get the full value of a joy you must have
somebody to divide it with.
– Mark Twain

Find ecstasy in life;
the mere sense of living is joy enough.
– Emily Dickinson

Joy is not in things;
it is in us.
– Richard Wagner

Joy is the serenity of heaven.
– John Donne

We cannot cure the world of sorrows,
but we can choose to live in joy.
– Joseph Campbell

My mind to me a kingdom is,
such present joys therein I find,
That it excels all other bliss
– Sir Edward Dyer
1543 – 1607

When you do things from your soul,
you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
– Rumi, 1207-1273

In time of care and sorrow, keep a
fountain of joy alive in you.
– Dietrich Bonhoffer

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Every Day is Mothers’ Day

Post author By Steve McCurry
Post date May 5, 2020
39 Comments on Every Day is Mothers’ Day

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
– Robert Browning

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
– Mahatma Gandhi

All that I am, or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
– Abraham Lincoln

Mother is the name for God in the lips
and hearts of little children.
– William Makepeace Thackeray

Mother: the most beautiful word
on the lips of mankind.
—Kahlil Gibran

Artists have been depicting the special bond between mothers and their children for hundreds of years.

Relationships can be difficult to describe, and sometimes an image tells the story better than words. One of the most powerful and unforgettable photos depicting a mother and her children in the history of photography is Dorothea Lange’s photograph of a destitute mother and her children taken in 1936.

Dorothea Lange said in an interview about the picture, “She said that they had been living on frozen vegetables from the surrounding fields, and birds that the children killed. She had just sold the tires from her car to buy food. There she sat in that lean-to tent with her children huddled around her, and seemed to know that my pictures might help her, and so she helped me.”

“A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law…
– Agatha Christie

Doris Mae Stevens McCurry holding Steve, Baltimore, MD

Music: Reverie by Scott Buckley

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Serenity

Serenity is the balance between good and bad, life and death, horrors and pleasures. Life is, as it were, defined by death. If there wasn’t death of things, then there
wouldn’t be any life to celebrate.
– Norman Davies

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.
– Thich Nhat Hanh

Do your work, then step back.
The only path to serenity.
– Lao Tzu

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter – a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
– Henri Matisse

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
– Joseph Addison

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
– Andre Gide
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Water – The Essence of Life

Post author By Steve McCurry
Post date November 13, 2017
35 Comments on Water – The Essence of Life

Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.
– Margaret Atwood

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
– W. H. Auden

Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.
– Laozi

A man of wisdom delights in water.
– Confucius

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.
– Loren Eiseley

When you put your hand in a flowing stream,
you touch the last that has gone before and the
first of what is still to come.
– Leonardo da Vinci

And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
– Lord Byron

Water is the soul of the Earth.
– W. H. Auden

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans …
– Khalil Gibran

Water is also one of the four elements,
the most beautiful of God’s creations.
It is both wet and cold, heavy, and with a
tendency to descend,
and flows with great readiness.
– John of Damascus, Syrian monk

Water is the driving force of all nature.
– Leonardo da Vinci

In time and with water, everything changes.
– Leonardo da Vinci

All water has a perfect memory and is forever
trying to get back to where it was.
– Toni Morrison

Water is life’s matter and matrix, mother and medium.
There is no life without water.
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Don’t you realize that the sea is the home of water?
All water is off on a journey unless it’s in the sea, and
it’s homesick, and bound to make its way home someday.
– Zora Neale Hurston

Water, like religion and ideology, has the power to move millions of people. Since the very birth of human civilization, people have moved to settle close to it. People move when there is too little of it. People move when there is too much of it. People journey down it. People write, sing and dance about it. People fight over it. And all people, everywhere and every day, need it.
– Mikhail Gorbachev

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
– Thomas Fuller

*Suri Tribe, Tulget, Omo Valley, Ethiopia*

To understand water is to understand the cosmos,
the marvels of nature, and life itself.
– Masaru Emoto

Water is being depleted many, many times faster
than nature can replenish it.
– Maude Barlow

Clean water, the essence of life and a birthright for everyone,
must become available to all people now.
– Jean-Michel Cousteau

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Finding Home

Home should be an oratorio of the memory,
singing to all our after life melodies and
harmonies of old remembered joy.
– Henry Ward Beecher

Home is the nicest word there is.
– Laura Ingalls Wilder

Home is where, when you cross its threshold,
you finally feel at peace.
– Dennis Lehane

A home is one of the most sacred of places.
It is a sanctuary into which men flee from the
world’s perils and alarms.
It is a resting-place to which at close of day the weary
retire to gather new strength for the
battle and toils of tomorrow.
It is the place where love learns its lessons,
where life is schooled into discipline and strength,
where character is molded.
– J.R. Miller

Home is where one starts from.
– T.S. Eliot

Where thou art, that is home.
– Emily Dickenson

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.
– Helen Rowland

Nor need we power or splendor,
wide hall or lordly dome;
the good, the true, the tender-
these form the wealth of home.
– Sarah J. Hale

Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
they have to take you in.
– Robert Frost

It takes a lot of living to make a house a home
It doesn’t make any difference how rich you get to be
How much your chairs and tables cost, how great your luxury
It isn’t home to you though it be the palace of a king,
Until somehow your soul is wrapped round everything.
– Paraphrase of Edgar Guest poem, Home

*McCurry family home, Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, USA*

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Courage

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
– Nelson Mandela

“Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin,
but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones;
and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
God is awake.”
– Victor Hugo

“All happiness depends on courage and work.”
– Honoré de Balzac

“Courage is found in unlikely places.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.”
– Mark Twain

“You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going.
What you need is to recognize the possibilities and
challenges offered by the present moment, and to
embrace them with courage, faith and hope.”
– Thomas Merton

“Bran thought about it. ‘Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?’
‘That is the only time a man can be brave,’ his father told him.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage,
you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”
― Maya Angelou

“Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the conquest of it.”
– William Danforth

“Courage is not having the strength to go on;
it is going on when you don’t have the strength.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal:
it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
– Vincent van Gogh

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
― Anaïs Nin

“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon,
there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always
difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the
same courage that a soldier needs.
Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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