For a great tree death comes as a gradual transformation, its vitality ebbs slowly. Even when life has abandoned it entirely it remains a majestic thing. On some hilltop a dead tree may dominate the landscape for miles around. Alone among living things it retains its character and dignity after death. Plants whither; animals disintegrate. But a dead tree may be as arresting, as filled with personality, in death as it is in life. Even in its final moments, when the massive trunk lies prone and it has moldered into a ridge covered with mosses and fungi, it arrives at a fitting and noble end. It enriches and refreshes the earth. And later, as part of other green and growing things, it rises again.
Edwin Way Teale
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The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
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When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
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A vision without a task is a dream. A task without a vision is drudgery. But a vision with a task can change the world.
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We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. We must learn to see the world anew.
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The longest journey that you will make in your life is from your head to your heart.
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You don’t have to know the way, the way knows the way You don’t have to plan the way Trust the way, feel your way The way knows, the way knows The way knows the way
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There are two ways to live; one is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
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O Great Spirit whose voice I hear in the winds, I come to you as one of your many children. I need your strength and your wisdom. Make me strong not to be superior to my brother, but to be … Continue reading
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