6. This cave simulates origins in a way that makes
contemplation all but unnecessary. In a sense, I
have been left stranded at the entrance to myself.
James Cowan
8. I am hungry for the stillness and wisdom of caves.
Stephanie Kaza
9. What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In
the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock.
Edward Abbey
10. Sacred places are the truest definitions of the
earth.If you would know the earth for what it really
is, learn it through its sacred places.
N.Scott Momaday
11. Space has a spiritual equivalent and can heal
what is divided and burdensome in us.
Gretel Ehrlich
12. Having spent the day searching for mana, mystic
voices, a luminous encounter with the Other, I met
simply a deer. I felt an enormous joy.
Belden C. Lane
13. Tell me the landscape in which you live and I will
tell you who you are.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
14. O ancestors, powerful spirits, who live amongst
us: your tombs are the mountains, your waterfalls
are the clouds, the plants are your jewels.
Sumatra Incantation
15. The wise take pleasure in rivers and lakes, the
virtuous in mountains; the wise are continuously
active, the virtuous still.
Confucius
16. If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.
Goethe
17. As the sheath and branching leaves of the
plantain are seen in its stem, so You are the stem
of the universe and all is visible in You.
Hindu Prayer to Vishnu
18. I'm too religious to believe in religion. You don't
have to believe in a sacred world. It slaps you in
the face. It's everywhere.
Gretel Ehrlich
19. The ocean is filled with joy—the atmosphere all
joy/Joy in freedom, worship, love! Joy in the
ectasy of life.
Walt Whitman
