Montain thoughts


John Muir wrote about nature for instance in the Yosemite.
Here is a Quote:

     Here is calm so deep, grasses cease waving. . . . Wonderful how completely everything in wild nature fits into us, as if truly part and parent of us. The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing. The trees wave and the flowers bloom in our bodies as well as our souls, and every bird song, wind song, and; tremendous storm song of the rocks in the heart of the mountains is our song, our very own, and sings our love.
And here one of his sketches: 

You can feel that he is in love with nature. 
We all know that nature can heal us.  

 There is a photographer showing her photos in a museum in Stockholm right now, she is also describing her relation to nature. 
Her name is Kirsty Mitchell; 



After her mother sudden death in a not so old age, she used nature and fantasy to comfort her. 
She had to find some way to cope with the sadness. 
And nature was one part of the answer. The other parts were her creations. It was faded memories of the books that her mother read for her as a child.



When I today walked in the nature nearby I had a third approach: 

 I tried to do a walking meditation; I walked slowly and took two steps on the in breath and three on the out breath. 
I focused on the breath and the steps and just noticed the scenery and the people i met. 

Now and then I stopped to take a photo or to just enjoy the sunshine.  I took this photo of the big cliffs that once were transported here from the north under the last ice age. 
You could feel the power of the ice. 

 One day it will come again, that fast sets the ongoing climate change in another perspective. 
 Everything change, people have moved south under the last ice age. As refugees probably will come here from the south of Europe in some decades, because of the heat. 

 To meditate means to see with clear eyes. To see consequences of our actions and to try not to to actions that will harm others and nature. 
John Muir did that when he worked for the Yosemite to be a national park. Partly because of him the Redwood trees are still there to be admired.







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