Sunday, April 22, 2007

EARTH DAY

Today, 22 April, is Earth Day. Astrologically this is an appropriate date, in the first degrees of Taurus, fixed Earth sign of the zodiac.. There's stability and comfort in Taurus, appreciation of nature's wonder. Ruled by Venus, planet of love, beauty, relatedness, grace and harmony. Now, more than ever we humans need to appreciate and be aware of what we owe to our planet. Our time here may be in jeopardy.


"What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more, to follow grassy roads that lead to ferny brooks where I can bathe my fingers in a cataract of rippling notes, or to clamber over a stone wall into green fields that tumble and roll and climb in riotous gladness!" (Helen Keller)

"The whole world is, to me, very much "alive" - all the little growing things, even the rocks. I can't look at a swell bit of grass and earth, for instance, without feeling the essential life - the things going on within them. The same goes for a mountain, or a bit of the ocean, or a magnificent piece of old wood." (Ansel Adams)


"A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature."
--Henry David Thoreau



Please, let it not be that "We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap." ~ Kurt Vonnegut

Photgraphs from the Rocky Mountain National Park, taken by my husband..

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