How strange and wonderful is our home, our earth,
With its swirling vaporous atmosphere,
Its flowing and frozen climbing creatures,
The croaking things with wings that hang on rocks
And soar through fog, the furry grass, the scaly seas…
How utterly rich and wild…
Yet some among us have the nerve,
The insolence, the brass, the gall to whine
About the limitations of our earthbound fate
And yearn for some more perfect world beyond the sky.
We are none of us good enough
For the world we have.
Edward Abbey
Video by YT member skoumas
Photo from Wikimedia COmmons
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Deborah - Thank you. For both the lovely poem and this fantastic video. Could not think of a better way to celebrate Earth Day.
beautiful and spot on as usual Deborah!
A great Earth Day post. Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful. It's good every day to see the richness of our earth, the strange and wonderful ...
lovely video we are constantly in motion and forget that. happy earth day-thanks for the reminder
This is a wonderful earth day tribute, Deb. I have the deepest respect for Mr. Abbey and this is one of his thoughts reminding me a little of Carl Sagan's little mini-sermons regarding human arrogance. I am going to watch the video now.
Beautifully expressed Deborah!
Happy Earth Day, G
That is such a lovely poem, you always have the perfect collection to present. :)
Happy Earth Day/Week for you too, Deb. Hope you had a great week/weekend.
We are glad to be home.. It was a wonderful trip --just getting to see my son and family. BUT--the weather was horrible. Oh Well!!!!
I'm going to check through some of your older blog posts.
Hugs,
Betsy
Beautiful tribute to Mother Earth. Thank you.
All I can do is to agree! I love our Earth, she's our Mother and she's the only one we have...
You commented on our blurry blog and I liked your comments :)) Have a nice week! Best regards, Maria
Hi Deborah! My word verification is 'grace'. Very fitting for your wonderful post.
This was beautiful. Thank you. Lisa
just "ooooooohhhh...." for the vid!
I linked it too on FB, hope you don't mind!
Thanks for having showed me this one, you always find beautiful things!
Deborah, thank you as always for the reminder, the beautiful poem and the incredible video. And as Dianne says -- spot on!
Oh, may we learn to be good enough, to see ourselves as part of nature and not owners of it.
Stunning! The poem so touched my heart and the video has given me permanant goose bumps!!!
Thank-you and Happy Earth Day EveryDay!
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