Photo: From acmstravel.com a view of the Whanganui River, NZ which in 2012 was recognised in NZ law as a natural entity with legal rights equivalent to humans. This followed on from the first landmark case in 2008 in Ecuador when the Vilcabama River was protected by granting it rights at law.
“Nature cannot be seen solely as a resource to be owned, exploited and profited from.” Suzanne Benally
Image: the wallpaper.co A fractal – never ending and infinitely complex patterns that repeat across scales. They exist between our familiar dimensions.
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Martin Luther King Jr. (which he borrowed from Theodore Parker)
Exhaling Hope
Fractals of compassion,
microscopic beauty
clear to the naked eye in
the everyone journey of justice,
bending that arc and
shortening its awaited time,
holding ourselves accountable
for neighbours of every
living kind, that all might
breathe as we breathe,
inverting mindlessness,
exhaling hope.