Nature Evokes Something In Our Inner World
They say there is a tune which is forbidden to be played in the European armies because it makes the Swiss desert, since it reminds them so forcibly of their hills and home. I have heard many Swiss tunes played in college. Balancing between getting and not getting a hard lesson, a breath of fragrant air from the fields coming in at the window would serve as a Swiss tune and make me desert to the glens from which it came.
- Emerson
The beauty and mystery of nature offers a never-ending source of creative inspiration and gratitude for the gift of life.
When I was about ten years old, I saw a meadow. It was early May and it was filled with wild lilies. That sight, together with the sounds of the crickets and birds — all of this somehow struck me in such a way that ever since then that meadow has become my norm of reality and value. A good economy is one that allows that meadow to survive. Good politics protects that meadow. A good religion is what enabled me to understand the deep mystery in the meadow. . . We need the sun, the moon, the stars, the rivers and the mountains and the trees, the flowers, the birds, the song of the birds, the fish in the sea. All of this evokes something in our inner world, evokes a world of mystery. It evokes a world of the sacred and gives us a sense of awe and mystery.
- Tom Berry, from the video The Great Story. For more from Thomas Berry, including excerpts from my interview of him, visit here.
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