Inspired by lyrics to “Pay Attention” Joyce Johnson Rouse (Earth Mama), based on wisdom attributed to Chief Seattle):
Pay attention to the trees, pay attention to the river.
Pay attention to the bees. Pay attention to the weather.
Pay attention to the waters, to the dreams, to the forests, to the streams.
Pay attention to the glaciers, to the breeze, to the frost line and the coastline and the coral beneath the seas.
Pay attention to the wisdom, to the brothers and sisters living close to the Earth.
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors. We are just borrowing it from our children.
This we know: The Earth does not belong to us. We belong ….to the Earth.