Tuesday, August 18, 2020

A thousand unbreakable links (Mary Oliver)


  There exist a thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else, and our dignity and our chances are one.  The farthest star and the mud at our feet are a family; and there is no decency or sense in honoring one thing, or a few things, and then closing the list.  The pine tree, the leopard, the Platte River, and ourselves – we are at risk together, or we are on our way to a sustainable world together.  We are each other’s destiny.

--Mary Oliver, Upstream             

1 comment:

  1. The writing and the image are both so special...and the sentiment so true. We are all one.

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