Wednesday 6 November 2013

Pam: a thought for Thanksgiving


Albert Bierstadt - Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak with Shoshone Indian encampment, Couresy of Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1863.

Editor: Pam sends AWG her best wishes for a Happy Thanksgiving and is sorry to miss our celebration.  She gave us this wonderful writing:

"What is life?  It is the flash of a firefly in the night.  It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.  It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset".

 Crowfoot, Native American warrior and orator (1821-1890)

The Native Americans were the first inhabitants of the Americas. They were our first environmentalists and horticulturists. To them the spirit world was embodied in every part of the natural world, whether animal, vegetable, or mineral. Thus they treated the natural world with great respect.

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