Be aware of the contact between your feet and the earth. Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet.
-Thich Nhat Hanh "Thich Nhat Hanh"
Be aware of the contact between your feet and the earth. Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet.
Because we all share this planet earth, we have to learn to live in harmony and peace with each other and with nature. This is not just a dream, but a necessity.
Summer set lip to earth’s bosom bare, and left the flushed print in a poppy there.
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent school-masters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
Your hills, O Earth, your snow-clad mountain peaks, your forests, may they show us kindliness… Impart to us vitalising forces that come, O Earth from deep within your body, your central point, your navel, purify us wholly.
You were placed on this earth to create, not to compete.
A disciple in training will comprehend this earth, the realm of death and the realm of the gods. A disciple in training will investigate the well-taught Path of Virtue, even as an expert garland-maker picks flowers.
Even after all this time the sun never says to the Earth, “You owe me.” Look what happens with a love like that, it lights the whole sky.
Begin with yourself. There is no time to waste. It is your duty to do your part to bring God’s kingdom on earth.
Peace be to earth and to airy space! Peace be to heaven, peace to the waters, peace to the plants and peace to the trees! May all the gods grant me peace!