Earth Day ~ Another Mother's Day!

Web of Life by Chief Seattle

Teach your children what we have taught our children - that the Earth is our Mother. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons and daughters of the Earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves. This we know. The Earth does not belong to us, we belong to the Earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood that unites one family. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons and daughters of the Earth. We did not weave the web of life; We are merely a strand in it. Whatever we do to the Web, We do to ourselves.

http://www.sistersofmercy.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=342&Itemid=237#1


We do not exist outside of nature or above nature or independent of nature — we are simply its most vulnerable part.— Joan Chittister

http://www.cbmidwest.org/documents/PrayerforEarthDay.pdf

http://www.coral.org/node/3916

http://www.examiner.com/video/waste-we-can-live-without

http://ecowatch.com/ssteingraber-articles/

http://steingraber.com/

Treat the earth well.  We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
-- Native American Proverb

In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations.
-- From The Great Law of The Iroquois Confederacy

Sunset. Then I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being. And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy... But anywhere is the center of the world. -- Black Elk 3