Earth Day - 2014

...amen to that!

   Now I can't speak for all contemplative photographers but for me, Nature is divine presence.  I would no sooner throw litter in a forest than I would in a church.  There are many ways to celebrate our Mother Earth today...check them out:

10 Ways to Celebrate

 Earth Day

   I would also suggest taking your camera to a favorite wild place and creating a photographic series on your encounter.

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Footnote: 
  
The Original Green Man:

 The most common and perhaps obvious interpretation of the Green Man is that of a pagan nature spirit, a symbol of man’s reliance on and union with nature, a symbol of the underlying life-force, and of the renewed cycle of growth each spring. - from The Enigma of the Green Man

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