Plan for the planet,
Plan for a positive
future, not a living hell.
Plan for whole systems,
water flowing clean and free,
Plan for peace and contentment,
not materialism and misery.
Plan for the animals
with whom we share this space,
Plan well for them,
that we stop the chase.
Plan for the plants,
trees and flowers,
They thrive under soft
sacred showers,
Plan for the fish, plan
for the seas,
Plan so we will all
enjoy the beautiful breeze,
Plan for the planet,
when you wake up today,
Plan well, plan well,
come what may.
Joe Staunton
WE NEED ANOTHER AND A
WISER AND PERHAPS
A MORE MYSTICAL CONCEPT
OF ANIMALS.
Remote from universal
nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in
civilization surveys
the creature through the glass of his knowledge and
sees thereby a feather
magnified, and the whole image in distortion. We
patronize them for their
incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having
taken a form so far
below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err,
for the animal shall
not be measured by man. In a world far older than ours,
finished and complete,
gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or
never attained, they
live by voices we shall never hear. They are not
underlings. They are
not bretheren. They are other nations, caught in the
net of life and time,
fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the
earth.
from The Outermost House by Henry Beston -1928.
Treat the Earth and all
that dwell thereon with respect.
Remain close to the
Great Spirit.
Show great respect for
your fellow beings.
Work together for the
benefit of all Mankind.
Give assistance and
kindness wherever needed.
Do what you know to
be right.
Look after the well
being of mind and body.
Dedicate a share of
your efforts to the greater good.
Be truthful and honest
at all times.
Take full responsibility
for your actions.
Great Spirit,
give us
hearts to understand;
never to take
from creation's beauty more than we give;
never to
destroy wantonly for the furtherance of greed;
never to
deny to give our hands for the building of earth's beauty;
never to
take from her what we cannot use.
Give us hearts
to understand
that to destroy
earth's music is to create confusion;
that to wreck
her appearance is to blind us to beauty;
that to callously
pollute her fragrance is to make a house of stench;
that as we
care for her she will care for us.
We have forgotten
who we are.
We have sought
only our own security.
We have exploited
simply for our own ends.
We have distorted
our knowledge.
We have abused
our power.
Great Spirit,
whose dry lands thirst,
help us to
find the way to refresh your lands.
Great Spirit,
whose waters are choked with debris and pollution,
help us to
find the way to cleanse your waters.
Great Spirit,
whose beautiful earth grows ugly with misuse,
help us to
find the way to restore beauty to your handiwork.
Great Spirit,
whose creatures are being destroyed,
help us to
find a way to replenish them.
Great Spirit,
whose gifts to us are being lost in selfishness and corruption,
help us to
find the way to restore our humanity.
http://www.indians.org/welker/tencomm.htm
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