Larry and the HS eco-club bought up sections of the "senior side walk" designated for seniors to write their name and leave their mark- they instead bought sections and planted trees. They left their mark.
This last weekend Larry shared his biographical ecological theology at our gathering, and also shared some of these quotes. Perhaps some recognition that the divisions of sacred and secular have been blurred through the mystery of God in nature.
"In God's wilderness lies the hope of the world - the great fresh,unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness ofcivilization drops off, and the wounds heal ere we are aware."
"Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people arebeginning to find out that going to the mountain is going home; thatwildness is necessity; that mountain parks and reservations areuseful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but asfountains of life."
"I care to live, only to entice people to look at nature's liveliness."
"The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness."
"Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world."
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in,where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.John Muir
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches,and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.John Muir
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.John Muir
Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, andclimb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.John Muir
One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches,for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.John Muir
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, andpoetry, and all that is spiritual.John Muir
There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control thegreatest of creation's braggart lords.John Muir
Quotes"In God's wilderness lies the hope of the world - the great fresh,unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization dropsoff, and the wounds heal ere we are aware." -- John Muir
"To know something about trees--about even one tree--is to know somethingprofound about the nature of the world and our place in it." -- Gerald Jonas
Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher"standard of living" is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free. For us the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television, and the chance to find a pasque-flower is a right as inalienable as free speech. -- Aldo Leopold (1886-1948)
When I reflect on a lot of this I can't help but wonder if perhaps we wouldhave all been better off had we stayed farmers?
-Larry French
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