Welcome to Gaia! :: View User's Journal | Gaia Journals

~The wind shows us how close to the edge we are. ~ --Joan Didion

~Although the wind is very powerful and you can feel its presence, in and of itself it cannot be seen. You know it is there by its effect on others. The great trees, the grasses and waves on the sea bend with its force. If you are aware of your surroundings, you know it is there long before you feel it. So it is with the ineffable. ~ --Anonymous

~The wind blows hard among the pines
Toward the beginning
Of an endless past.
Listen: you've heard everything. ~ --Shinkichi Takahash



Water

~Our bodies are molded rivers. ~ --Novalis

~If there is magic on the planet, it is contained in the water. ~ --Loren Eisley

~Advice to those about to build a Water-garden - DON'T. Not that the Water-garden is not a joy and a glory; but that it is cruelly hard to keep in order and control unless you are a master of millions and of broad ample acres of pool and pond. Water, like fire, is a good servant, perhaps, but is painfully liable to develop into a master. ~ --R. J. Farre


Earth

~"Rocks pray to," said Grandad. "Pebbles and boulders and old weathered hills. They are still and silent, and those are two important ways to pray." ~ --Douglas Wood

~Remain true to the earth. ~ --Friedrich Nietzsche

~Earth teach me to forget myself
as melted snow forgets its life.
Earth teach me resignation
as the leaves which die in the fall.
Earth teach me courage
as the tree which stands all alone.
Earth teach me regeneration
as the seed which rises in the spring. ~ --William Alexander


Fire

~Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared. ~ --Otto Weininger

~There are two kinds of fires. the Bad Fire and the Good Fire. And the paradox is that the Good Fire is made of bad things, of things that we do not want; but the Bad Fire is made of good things, of things that we do want. ~ --G. K. Chesterton

~All things, oh priests, are on fire . . . The eye is on fire; forms are on fire; eye-consciousness is on fire; impressions received by the eye are on fire. ~ --Buddha


All

~We all like to congregate at boundary conditions. Where land meets water. Where earth meets air. Where bodies meet mind. Where space meets time. We like to be on one side, and look at the other. ~ --Douglas Adams