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The Healing Art of "Heron Dance"
All art on this page is donated by Roderick MacIver of Heron Dance Press & Art Studio. You can also view more of Rod's beautiful healing art on his
Heron Dance Watercolor Slideshow.
Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence. (Hazrat Inayat Khan)
Nature is the art of God. (Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, 1635)
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
(Frank Llyod Wright)
Luna Moth
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. (Chief Seattle, 1854)
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station,
through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will
only tune in. (George Washington Carver)
Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.
(Standing Bear)
Springwater Dancer
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.... People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see its always trying to please us back. (Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1982)
That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life
would lead us to believe. (John Berger)
Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.
(John Heywood, 1565)
Verdant Gathering
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated. (Auguste Rodin)
Spring slips into even the most hidden places of the countryside and
transforms them into mossy-green mansions of delight.
(Author Unknown)
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the
journey-work of the stars. (Walt Whitman)
Three Blossoms
Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
(Alan C. Kay)
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome
than the most luxurious Persian rug. (Helen Keller)
Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.
(Standing Bear)
Secret Pond
The tulip and the butterfly, Appear in gayer coats than I: Let me be dressed fine as I will; Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still. (Isaac Watts)
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. (Henry David Thoreau)
What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and
never see the Dawn! (Logan Pearsall Smith)
Monarch Morning
I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated plantain with tall stems, and dandelions with splendid flowers and fairy down, than the too-well-tended lawn. (W.H. Hudson, The Book of a Naturalist, 1919)
Some people, like flowers, give pleasure, just by being. (Author Unknown)
Flowers are heaven's masterpiece. (Dorothy Parker)
Surya Namaskara
There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me. (Thomas Jefferson)
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. (Juvenal)
The earth laughs in flowers. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Woods Wanderer
I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. It has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful. Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and benumbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy. (Hamlin Garland, McClure's, February 1899)
You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters. (St. Bernard)
God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees
and flowers and clouds and stars. (Martin Luther)
Autumn Portage
Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars... and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful. Everything is simply happy. Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents and they are not going to become rich and they will never have any bank balance. Look at the flowers - for no reason. It is simply unbelievable
how happy flowers are. (Osho)
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. (Henry David Thoreau)
Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never
alone or weary of life. (Rachel Carson)
Birches II
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and
irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life! (John Muir)
Each season has its joys to treasure, to lift one's spirits and bring us
pleasure. (Author Unknown)
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods
before sunrise. (George Washington Carver)
Deep Woods Stillness
This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls. (John Muir)
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
(Albert Einstein)
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
(John Muir)
Sandpiper Glow
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life. (John Burroughs)
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength
that will endure as long as life lasts. (Rachel Carson)
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Loon Morning
I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes. (E.E. Cummings)
Climb up on some hill at sunrise. Everybody needs perspective once in
a while, and you'll find it there. (Robb Sagendorph)
The poetry of the earth is never dead. (John Keats)
Loon Grace
As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens.
(Stephen Graham)
Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and
vegetable mold myself. (Henry David Thoreau)
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
(Henry David Thoreau)
Loon Lake Sunset II
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. 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)
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it
attached to the rest of the world. (John Muir)
Lose yourself in nature and find peace.
(Author Unknown)
Radiant Heron
I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. (John Muir)
I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously
yield to it, will direct us aright. (Henry David Thoreau)
If one way be better than another, that you may
be sure is Nature's way. (Aristotle)
Egret Preening
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. (Eleonora Duse)
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it
with us or we find it not. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence
in himself, and listen only to his real master:
Nature. (Auguste Renoir)
Egret Flora
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. (Charles A. Lindbergh, Life, 22 December 1967)
The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged
by the hand of man. (Author Unknown)
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
(William Shakespeare)
Two Egrets
You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. (Hal Borland, Sundial of the Seasons, 1964)
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses
put in order. (John Burroughs)
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Great Egret Blue
Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all
the sights and sounds of her existence. (Alfred Billings Street)
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye -- it also includes
the inner pictures of the soul. (Edvard Munch)
The rainbows of life follow the storm.
(Author Unknown)
Emanant Blue
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. (Galileo)
The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
I am in love with the green earth.
(Charles Lamb)
Horizon Reflection
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. (Henry David Thoreau, journal, 5 January 1856)
The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord
with nature, in her manner of operation. (John Cage)
Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow.
(Marya Mannes)
Tranquil Reflections
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. (John Muir)
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. (Lao Tzu)
Delight in the beauty that surrounds you.
(Author Unknown)
Heron Storm
God is the friend of silence. Trees, flowers, grass grow in silence. See the stars, moon, and sun, how they move in silence. (Mother Teresa)
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and
realities of the universe about us,the less taste we shall have for
destruction. (Rachel Carson)
The best thing about animals is that they
don't talk much. (Thornton Wilder)
Great Egret Meeting
God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over the harbor and
city on silent haunches and then moves on. (Carl Sandburg)
I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.
(Alan Hovhaness)
Wild Canoe
I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup. (Wendell Berry)
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play
with your hair. (Kahlil Gibran)
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings
and our hearts. (William Hazlett)
The Dance
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