Daily quotes with thoughtful reflections to inspire you every day.

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Photos can have a strong inspirational affect on us. They can freeze a moment of time when we experienced inspiration. They can take us to inspiring places we may not have been. They capture a mood that can be re-experienced every time we look at the picture.
All the pictures I feature on this site are […]

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was recently pondering the wonder of ladybugs. Each one of them has a slightly different shade of orange or red. As I observed one crawling along the window pane in my bedroom, I thought, “There may not be another living thing on the planet that looks exactly like this one.” Then I squished it […]

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.
-Aldo Leopold

Happy Blog Action Day! Along with over 15,000 other bloggers, I am writing today about the environment. Rather than looking at the environmental issue as a social and political one, I am discussing it as a personal and spiritual one because I believe that is what is truly is.
We Are the Earth
Our physical bodies […]

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
-George Santayana

I’ve never been much for small talk, but I’m going to talk about the weather once again. In yesterday’s post, 7 Ways to Avoid Winter Blues (yes, I know it’s September, but if you read yesterday’s post, you’ll understand), one of the 7 ways is to appreciate the seasonal changes. This post is an expression […]

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
-Edward Abbey

When we think of the topic of inspiration, we often think of beautiful scenery, waterfalls, mountains, streams, etc. It is our natural environment and it is aligned with inspiration.
The world we live in is defined by boundaries: yard boundaries, fences, walls, gardens with defined borders, paths with clear edges, international borders. Most of us […]