music : eternal ocean wave slides adv click were there no god, we would be in this glorious world...
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We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the wavesthat break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is a symbolic as well as actual beauty in the
migration of the birds, the ebb and flow of the tides, the folded bud ready for the spring. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature--the assurance
that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter. The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world...are available to anyone who will place himself under
the influence of earth, sea and sky and their amazing life."
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel”
The sailors know that the sea is dangerous and the storm is terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore
"Lord of the far horizons,Give us the eyes to see:Over the verge of the sundown,The beauty that is to be."
Instead of a bottom-line based on money and power, we need a new bottom-line that defines productivity and creativity as where corporations, governments, schools, public institutions, and social practices are judged as efficient, rational and productive not only to the extent they maximize money and power, but to the extent they maximize love and caring, ethical and ecological sensitivity, and our capacities to respond with awe and wonder at the grandeur of creation.
I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.
When you're finally up at the moon looking back on earth, all those differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend, and you're going to get a concept that maybe this really is one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people.
We learned a lot about the Moon, but what we really learned was about the Earth. The fact that just from the distance of the Moon you can put your thumb up and you can hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything that you've ever known, your loved ones, your business, the problems of the Earth itself—all behind your thumb. And how insignificant we really all are, but then how fortunate we are to have this body and to be able to enjoy loving here amongst the beauty of the Earth itself.
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again. Ecclesiastes 1:7
And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:9-10
God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
A wonderful bird is the pelicanHis bill will hold more than his belican.He can take in his beakFood enough for a week,But I'm damned if I see how the helican.
God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees the flowers, clouds, stars, the rivers, lakes and the sea
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water
exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night; to
be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some
of the rewards of the simple life.
Music: Eternal Ocean Waves Edited byJack Cross