PHOTO: WILLIAM EGGLESTON
“Let us sit down here…on the open praire, where we can’t see a highway or a fence. Let’s have no blankets to sit on, but feel the ground with our bodies, the earth, the yielding shrubs.
Let’s have the grass for a mattress, experiencing its sharpness and its softness. Let us become like stones, plants and trees. Let us be animals, think and feel like animals.
Listen to the air, You can hear it, feel it, taste it, smell it.
Woniya wakan—the holy air—which renews all by its breath.
Woniya, wakan—spirit, life, breath, renewal—it means all that.
Woniya—we sit together, don’t touch, but something is there;
we feel it between us, as a presence.
A good way to start thinking about nature, talk to it.
Talk to the rivers, to the lakes, to the winds
as to our relatives.”
~John Fire Lame Deer
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eslynn says:
Dec 2, 2011
Beautiful. Thank you.
alex says:
Jun 12, 2012
Last time I went out hiking down a river jumping from rock to rock and running over moss I went barefoot. You definitely feel more connected to both your movements and nature as a whole around you. It was awesome I can’t believe I haven’t done it more often.
Thel says:
Jun 21, 2013
This is Beautiful! I love to sit on a moss covered hill, overlooking the treetops and islands below, the birds in the blue sky, as they soar and tumble and play, the white fluffy clouds and their never ending picture-messages, the water and the rippling waves and to feel the warm, soft breezes gently caress my face. It is good to be alive.
justte says:
Nov 17, 2013
Thank You.
How can i explain these,all of these pages are help me.
Thank You
You help me,come in connected in right times&spaces
THANK you
MYSTICMAMMA