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Category: Earth
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Humans are hardwired for kindness and cooperation.
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We are all made of the same star stuff. Not only all humans on the planet, not only all mammals, insects, reptiles, but everything from the core of the earth to the single cells that paved the way to you and me. The first primitive plants took the initiative to evolve into the…
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You Don't Have to Choose Between Happiness and Being Informed We are living in an amazingly beautiful world and when you focus on that more than on the bad news of the day, you begin to see that as confused and crazy as our civilization is the world is crazy beautiful! Her beauty…
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Does anyone remember this? You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. That worthiness is the thing that was missing in my early years. There is a book that has convinced me that I am equally deserving of…
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Life longing for itself… Quote from Sweet Honey on the Rocks quoting Kahlil Gibran. Tadpoles, 2 generations, life goes on and on – no matter what the humans are doing! Birds, bees, bugs, frogs,squirrells – all of it! And Why not? ©LaineQuinn 2022
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"…flowering plants were revolutionary in their appearance on the earth some two hundred million years ago, are dominant on land from the arctic to the tropics, and are crucial to our survival." Since reading those lines in Rebecca Solnit's book, Orwell's Roses, I haven't been able to look at a flower without a…
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There we are on that little blue ball happily floating through space that gorgeous blue ball we call our home planet spinning out the seasons and the days and nights as we delight in the joys of being alive seeing the flowers and birds and sunsets oceans rivers mountains and valleys –…
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What if you are here on this beautiful, physical, gravity based planet, simply because you want to be here? You like a challenge! Reprinted from LainesBlog ©LaineQuinn 2022
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That we dedicate a day for the celebration of the Earth is absurd and also necessary. The, so called, "most intelligent" creatures that life has spawned can't even protect that which sustains their very existence. (It wasn't always this way.) There are people involved in the destruction of our air, water…
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2020 Oh My – Goodbye goodbye goodbye – and don't come back ever again. The odd thing about this horrid year is that the world is more united than ever before. A global pandemic has brought us closer. The virus crossed from one country to another – without passport or…
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