Wilderness is the Ultimate Repository of the Human Soul

Painting above: Dragonfly of Happiness. Below that, Morning Migration.
These two spreads are from the draft of an upcoming Heron Dance book, Meditations on Nature Gratitude Journal.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
      - Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is the pattern which connects the crab to the lobster and the orchid to the primrose, and all of them to me and me to you?
      - Gregory Bateson

. . .

Journal reflection:

A field of wildflowers swaying in the wind
The hush of an old growth forest
The wonder of birds in flight, the beauty of their song
The mystery of a flock of geese floating across a wilderness lake at sunrise.
We came from wilderness;
Wilderness is the ultimate repository of the human soul.

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