it’s earth day, lovelies. and i could do post after post about how much i love nature. this tree-hugging, water-loving nature girl, however, has decided to focus her earth day celebration on the beauty of the sky.
first thing every single morning and last thing every single night, i gaze out my window + up at the sky. i can’t help but do it. i look up to see the clouds, the sun, the stars. i look up to remind myself how tiny i am and how great this world is. i look up to think about all of those who are far away from me, and remember that we are all standing under the same sky. i look up and wonder what it’s like way up there past our sky. i dream of the stars, of floating on clouds, of flying free. i look up just to breathe.
so, in order to honor this life-giving, awe-inspiring piece of nature on earth day, i have gathered 5 quotes. quotes that i’ve never heard before, but that are so inspiring and beautiful. take a moment, read these words, and then look up.
“In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion.”
― Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”
― John Lubbock, The Use Of Life
“I let my head fall back, and I gazed into the Eternal Blue Sky. It was morning. Some of the sky was yellow, some the softest blue. One small cloud scuttled along. Strange how everything below can be such death and chaos and pain while above the sky is peace, sweet blue gentleness. I heard a shaman say once, the Ancestors want our souls to be like the blue sky.”
― Shannon Hale, Book of a Thousand Days
“The sky is not my limit…I am.”
― T.F. Hodge
“Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth. We walk through it, yell into it, rake leaves, wash the dog, and drive cars in it. We breathe it deep within us. With every breath, we inhale millions of molecules of sky, heat them briefly, and then exhale them back into the world.” ― Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses
