LYW Mainstays | The Mainstays. Each mainstay is practice in mindful living and together the foundation of a life lived well.
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N A T U R E | Phytoncides. Airborne chemicals trees and plants emit to protect themselves with from germs and insects, and benefit people too!
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N A T U R E + R E L A T I O N S H I P S | Interconnectedness. I feel we have to begin standing our ground in the places we love. I think that we have to demand that concern for the land, concern for the Earth, and this extension of community that we've been speaking of, is not marginal - in the same way that women's rights are not marginal, in the same way that rights for children are not marginal. There is no separation between the health of human beings and the health of the land. It is all part of a compassionate view of the world. — Terry Tempest Williams
N A T U R E | The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.
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N A T U R E | Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
—John Muir
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting…
A tree is alive, and thus it is always more than you can see. Roots to leaves, yes—those you can, in part, see. But it is more…
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