[The] sound of the waters is audible to every ear, but there is other music in these hills, by no means audible to all. To hear even a few notes of it you must first live here for a long time, and you must know the speech of hills and rivers. Then on a still night, when the campfire is low and the Pleiades have climbed over rimrocks, sit quietly and listen for a wolf to howl, and think hard of everything you have seen and tried to understand. Then you may hear it – a vast pulsing harmony – its score inscribed on a thousand hills, its notes the lives and deaths of plants and animals, its rhythms spanning the seconds and the centuries.
- Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
And Hui Neng on the Buddha nature, Barry Lopez on the river from above, to a hawk, and Henry Beston on wholeness and being in tune with nature.
Read the rest of this Pause For Beauty:
www.herondance.org/wholeness
