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Music is a profound link to our senses and spirits. Nature provides us with outrageous songbirds and the healing energy of moving water. The whoosh of wings in flight. The messages the wind sends as she spins through the leaves. The call of wild creatures beckoned the wild in us.

Why Nature Has Been My Lifelong Place of Worship
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Deborah Barchi
Sep 26, 2022

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I absolutely agree with this. Mankind has set about destroying the natural world for greedy purposes, like a spoiled child, but if every single human being were to disappear overnight, the natural world would not suffer; in fact would not even notice.

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Deborah Barchi

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Deborah Barchi has recently retired from her career as a librarian and now has time to read, explore nature, and write poetry and essays.

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