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“First winter rain, the world and I are young.
“Heaven and Earth are only names for the same great entity, the Ultimate Source.
“Listen more to things than to beings. Hear the fire's voice, hear the water's voice.
“We are not passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are the crew.
“The spring sea rises and falls all day, rising and falling.
“The land is a living thing, breathing, feeling.
“So little cause for carolings of such ecstatic sound was written on terrestrial things afar or nigh.
“The forest breathes, and in its breath, you can hear the ancient heart of Russia.
“Every being is a book containing the secrets of God.
“Aloha ʻāina means love of the land. It is not metaphor; it is survival.
“I am the river, and you are its shores.
“And the earth is your mother. She is in you and you are of her.
“The greatest is space, for it contains all things.
“The jungle does not lie. It keeps every secret you bury in it.
“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside.
“I can hear you making small holes in the silence, rain.
“Mountains know secrets we need to learn.
“The universe is infinite, and contains infinite worlds.
“Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
“For me, African technology is often rooted in the natural world, living with it, not against it.