<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d123a64f-219d-4768-888a-f4196e9e5f14/8C654F1F-DF74-40E9-B511-DCF729868270/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.uuworld.org/2001/05/alternatives.html" href="http://www.uuworld.org/2001/05/alternatives.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.uuworld.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.uuworld.org/2001/05/alternatives.html"><P> At first glance, nothings seems more removed from the realities of the modern world than the world of nature. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.uuworld.org/2001/05/alternatives.html"> Fresh air and quiet are rare today</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.uuworld.org/2001/05/alternatives.html"><P> Encounters with wild nature first demonstrated to many of us the limitations of our society's dominant worldview. It is in nature that we most easily encounter a reality greater than human plans and aspirations. In nature our preconceptions and prejudices are most easily quieted, for they are not continually reinforced by encounters with others. In quiet alertness, our perceptions open to a meaning and goodness unconnected with human ends. Spirit in nature reaches out to us through beauty, through peace, through the openness of heart it evokes within us, and through our direct experience of its presence. Nature religion is hardly the only spiritual path open to humanity, but today it is a particularly powerful and appropriate one, for it teaches us lovingly to accept and embrace our world as a manifestation of the sacred. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/8C654F1F-DF74-40E9-B511-DCF729868270/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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