{"id":438,"date":"2007-07-19T08:05:25","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T21:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2007\/07\/19\/bounteous-earth\/"},"modified":"2007-07-19T08:05:25","modified_gmt":"2007-07-18T21:05:25","slug":"bounteous-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2007\/07\/19\/bounteous-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Bounteous Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/cloudsfromabove3.jpg\" title=\"cloudsfromabove3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/cloudsfromabove3.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Clouds\" title=\"Clouds\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/cloudsfromabove3.jpg\" title=\"cloudsfromabove3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>How blessed we are to have Nature\u2019s bounty \u2500<br \/>\nThe rolling seas, the boundless sky, the Earth<br \/>\nWhich provides us with food and shelter<br \/>\nAnd yields untold riches for use by Man.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>No need to ask; no need to beg or grovel or plead.<br \/>\nThe bounteous Earth just gives and gives and gives.<br \/>\nYet, if we do not have respect for the Earth<br \/>\nAnd use and destroy in the name of greed<br \/>\nMother Earth unleashes her fury.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>The crux is in the balance \u2500 the ability to take<br \/>\nWith respect, to make amends when we can,<br \/>\nTo know that Earth\u2019s gifts are irreplaceable,<br \/>\nTo acknowledge our puniness in the face of Might.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>We know too well the dangers and horrors<br \/>\nOf vengeful Earth, the unruly consequence<br \/>\nOf Man\u2019s pride, greed and arrogance.<br \/>\nWe need to find a different way.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>With respect for Mother Earth and all Her gifts<br \/>\nWe can live in harmony with the Earth<br \/>\nAnd with all the creatures She upholds.<br \/>\nGod grant that we change our wasteful ways.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Melody Anderson<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(Photograph: geekphilosopher.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How blessed we are to have Nature\u2019s bounty \u2500 The rolling seas, the boundless sky, the Earth Which provides us with food and shelter And yields untold riches for use by Man. No need to ask; no need to beg or grovel or plead. The bounteous Earth just gives and gives and gives. Yet, if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,13],"tags":[226,364,375],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-27","category-poems","tag-environment","tag-mother-earth","tag-nature"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4h1Q1-74","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}