We never look deeply into the quality of a tree; we never really touch it, feel its solidity, its rough bark, and hear the sound that is part of the tree. Not the sound of wind through the leaves, not the breeze of a morning that flutters the leaves, but its own sound, the sound of the trunk and the silent sound of the roots.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti
POETRY BRANCHES ///
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
― Joyce Kilmer
holy land ///
Wherever you are is home
And the earth is paradise
Wherever you set your feet is holy land . . .
You don't live off it like a parasite.
You live in it, and it in you.
- Wilfred Pelletier and Ted Poole
Have you ever heard the earth breathe?
I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches.
Have you ever heard the earth breathe?
-Kate Chopin
P A L M S (on the) H O R I Z O N
Before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we’ve learned as we’ve moved toward that dream. That’s the point at which most people give up. It’s the point at which, as we say in the language of the desert, one 'dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon.
- Paulo Coelho
c i t y h a z e
I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.
― Truman Capote
MAHOGANY & DIAMONDS = p r o t e c t i o n
M A H O G A N Y & D I A M O N D S
EMBODIES THE ESSENCE OF GUIDANCE AND PROTECTION
MIND/BODY BENEFITS: Strong connection to earth energy – good for drawing strength from earth. Enhances intuition.
HEALING PROPERTIES: Tea, made from the bark of mahogany, helps reduces fevers and helps ease diarrhea. The tea made from seeds is used to soothe toothaches. Mahogany fruit can be used as an energy drink that is believed to increase blood circulation and lower cholesterol. It is also believed to improve a man’s sexual vitality. Mahogany seeds are antibacterial and antimicrobial.
TREES COME OUT OF THE AIR ^ ^ ^
‘Of course, you have to wonder about where the wood came from.
Well, it came from a tree, and the substance of a tree is carbon. Where did that come from? It comes from the air, it’s carbon dioxide from the air. People look at trees and they think they come out of the ground but really trees come out of the air. The carbon dioxide in the air goes into the tree and it changes it; it kicks out the oxygen, pushing the oxygen away from the carbon and leaving the carbon substance with water. (The water comes out of the ground, but how did it get in there? It came out of the air, down from the sky. So in fact most of a tree is out of the air. There’s just a little bit from the ground, some minerals, and so forth.) Now as we know, oxygen and carbonstick very, very tight. How is it that the tree is so smart as to manage to take the carbon dioxide which is the carbon and oxygen so nicely combined, and undo it that easily?” ‘Ah!” you say “life has some mysterious force…” But no – the sun is shining, and it’s the sunlight that comes down and knocks this oxygen away from the carbon, and now the oxygen is some terrible by-product which the tree splits back into the air, leaving the carbon and the water and stuff to make the substance of the the tree.'
- Richard Feynman