Love Mother Earth for Valentine's Day

by Robin Wheeler

Published February 14, 2009 @ 04:00AM PT

You could think “today is just one more day like any other” OR perhaps you could say “it is the first day of the rest of my life”.

We live on an incredible planet. She provides superbly for our every want and need. Can there be any place more beautiful or wonderful in all of the heavens -- if you look at all of the love and diversity shared by humanity or the marvels given to us by mother nature?

So it is strange to think about how we have abused her and how we are destroying so much of the capacity of our mother to care for us.

John Denver wrote the following (Watch the Videos at Left):

“I want with all of my heart to be able to go fishing with my grandkids; and I want to go show them coral reefs in the ocean.”

“I think that all people have that kind of feeling in their hearts; and how much would there be to regret if we destroyed that opportunity for ourselves.”

“Its something we all have to be mindful of as we make the decisions that have to do with our lives, and how we live our lives, and what we want out of our lives…”

So, on this day, Valentine’s Day, I am inviting you to make a commitment. That commitment is to ensure that we can leave our children, and our children’s children, with as many of the blessings that have been given to us as possible.

Again, John wrote,

“One of the ways to keep love alive is to stay in touch with the natural environment - the wild living places on Earth. Some of the places where love is most difficult to find are those places where the forests are gone, the birds no longer sing, the waters are poisoned and the skies are brown with the effects of human pollution. We must protect the remaining wild places, and restore others. Much of this good work is underway. I applaud and encourage those of you who are involved. All of these special wild places are a part of mother nature. Mother Earth is the place from which there comes a constant, unrelenting ability to nurture. She is the life force that sustains us all.”

If we can remember this, then surely we can succeed as well in protecting and restoring Mother Earth and in creating a sustainable world and America.   Happy Valentine’s Day!!