Published 7-11-11     The Religion Network publishes every Monday

ON TODAY'S SITE:
John Muir, Chief Dan George, Anne Frank,
Henry David Thoreau, Osho, Walt Whitman
__________________________________________

Photo by Chuck Bowman                  All rights reserved


Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the
storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. 


John Muir (1838-1914)
Scottish-born American naturalist and author

_________

May the stars carry your sadness away,
May the flowers fill your heart with beauty.
May hope forever wipe away your tears,
And, above all, may silence make you strong.



Chief Dan George (1899-1981)
Chief of Tsleil-Waututh nation,
author, poet and actor

____________

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely
or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where
they can be quiet, alone with the heavens,
nature and God. Because only then does one
feel that all is as it should be and that God
wishes to see people happy, amidst the
simple beauty of nature.

Anne Frank (1929-1945)
Victim of the Bergen-Belsen Concentration
Camp, her diary is one of the world's
most widely-read books

________

And Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity;
so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
 

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
American author, poet, abolitionist, philosopher




Photo by Chuck Bowman                  All rights reserved

Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds,
look at the stars  ... and if you have eyes you will be able to see
that the whole existence is joyful.  Everything is simply happy.
Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to become
prime ministers or presidents and they are not going to
become rich and they will never have any bank balance...

     ...Look at the flowers - for no reason.
It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are.

Osho (1931-1990)
Indian mystic and guru

________




Everybody needs beauty as well as bread,
places to play in and pray in, where
nature may heal and give strength
to body and soul.

John Muir (1838-1914)
American wilderness preservationist

________



I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.


Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
American poet and essayist