Elemental

Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Nova Scotia. (8 June 2012)

Ocean and sea shore contain all the elements of Nature in a primal form.  There is the sun and the element of fire.  There is the ocean or sea and the element of water.  There is the land with the element of earth and the ocean and sea breezes with the element of air.  Spending time in this environment brings our own bodily elements back into balance.

~ Ted Andrews, Nature-Speak

Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Nova Scotia. (8 June 2012)

Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu,
Buddhist, Sufi, or Zen. Not any religion

or cultural system. I am not from the East
or the West, nor out of the ocean or up

from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not
composed of elements at all. I do not exist,

am not an entity in this world or the next,
did not descend from Adam or Eve or any

origin story. My place is placeless, a trace
of the traceless. Neither body nor soul.

~ Jalalu’ddin Rumi

Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Nova Scotia. (8 June 2012)