The quote is from one of my all-time fave children’s books, The Little Prince. It contains a lot of wisdom for adults too!
Take a moment to get my free ebooks for a weekend read. You’ll discover a brand new one there called The Samurai’s Pen: Poetry for our times. I just released it this week; hope you like it! It’s #2 in The Humanity Series.
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John Muir loved trees as much as I do. 🙂 Here are a few forest quotes from this renowned writer, naturalist, and conservationist:
“Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.”
“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
“And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul”
“Going to the woods is going home.”
“Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.”
“A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.”
Cryptic is from Hart Haiku Vol.1.
Travel is certainly one way we can remove ourselves from our regular circle and the group mindset. Every group has one. This has been easy for me to see when traveling to different countries, and the differences in mindset between cultures and communities can be quite startling.
Do you objectively stand outside of your particular community and observe how often everyone adopts the same thought patterns? Why do we human beings have a propensity to do this?
There may be many answers to this, but a couple that come to mind immediately are “to feel safe” and “to feel validated”. How to break out of these needs? It’s an important question, because this need to feel part of the whole at any cost can lead us down the path of sometimes making choices that go against our own inner wisdom.
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