I'd like to share: "I think its Cicero who says that when you go into a great tall grove, the presence of a deity becomes known to you. There are sacred groves everywhere. Going into the forest as a little boy, I can remember worshiping a tree, a great big old tree, thinking 'My, my, what you’ve known and been.' I think this sense of the presence of creation is a basic mood of man. But we now live in a city. It’s all stone and rock, manufactured by human hands. It’s a different kind of world to grow up in when you’re out in the forest with the little chipmunks and the great owls. All these things are around you as presences, representing forces and powers and magical possibilities of life that are not yours and yet are all part of life, and that opens it out to you. Then you find it echoing in yourself, because you are nature." -Joseph Campbell
Thanks for sharing. There is something sacred in nature. I have an affinity with rocks too! especially fossil's I occasionaly find while just looking down at my feet sometimes. "To see a world in a grain of sand// And a heaven in a wildflower// Hold infinity in the palm of your hand// And eternity in an hour." - William Blake
Finding fossils is the greatest! A beautiful quote as well, my friend. He is wonderful. I was just turned on to him this semester in my English class, and now I want to read all his stuff. He has written so much!
I can relate to that quote, especially growing up and still living in rural Alabama. But I'm not full grown yet
