Waiting For Every Day To Be Earth Day

“Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I’m stricken
by the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain

everythingness of everything, in cahoots
with the everythingness of everything else.”

—from “Diffraction (for Carl Sagan)” by Diane Ackerman

Time to Soothe Mother Nature?

“The thing that a lot of people cannot comprehend is that Mother Nature doesn’t have a bullet with their names on it. She has millions of bullets inscribed with to whom it may concern.”
—Author unknown

Another Earth Day, another reminder that we too often take our Universe for granted. Lest Mother Nature unleash her full arsenal on us, let’s pledge today to take better care of her.

[I didn’t have to travel far to experience the scene pictured here. May it remain safe from development.]

It’s High Holidays for Tree-Huggers

Happy Earth Day!
(Each word above links to a way you can participate.)

“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity…and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”
—William Blake

[Photo by Andrew Dunn. Capitalization of quote edited for easier reading.]