| The Earth Vision Project | | | | introduction. |
| Treewords in the sap current of forest talk. | | | | Prelude: Soundscape of Light |
| Birdsong and wing phrases of avianspeak. | | | | In the night, as his dreaming forms a weaving of |
| Wolf-tongue eloquence. Floral linguistics. Rustling | | | | sound and image, he opens to a stream |
| leaf poetry. Watery oratory of riverflow and | | | | condensing from an ethereal height. Grounded in |
| oceanwash. | | | | spirit, anchored in light, the chorale flows |
| These lines are drawn from an entry in Earth | | | | earthbound to merge with redwood violin |
| Vision, a travelogue of spiritual ecology, a work | | | | streams, wandering coyote piano keys, |
| begun in 1987 and completed in 2007. Currently in | | | | shimmering swan trumpetings, and myriad other |
| e-book form, The EV travelogue visits 70 sites | | | | voicings that form a symphonic pool. |
| across North America with artistic photographs | | | | Within the pool, trout and salmon harmonies wheel |
| and poetic prose. | | | | in a broad eddy, interplaying a lucency that |
| The Earth Vision project went on to produce five | | | | wakens an angel who dwells upon a ridge of joy. |
| books with a theme of spiritual ecology, as well as | | | | And the river of light-sound spills down through a |
| ongoing treatments of current environmental | | | | forest of dancing nature spirits and out across a |
| issues, in the form of articles. In 2008, Insight21 | | | | broad plateau, over which lofts the angel prisming |
| was launched, a sister project to Earth Vision. | | | | with light and color. |
| Insight21 presents answers for the 21st Century. | | | | Steadfast the radiance glides on until, by the rim |
| Of note, Earth Vision was conceived around the | | | | of the plateau, whitewatering through a canyon of |
| same time that its author discovered the inspiring | | | | deepening hope, the stream of rarefied |
| music of Daniel Kobialka, which lent an underlying | | | | consciousness rounds a final bend, then tumbles |
| thematic feeling upon which to compose the | | | | as a waterfall, a heartsong that cascades down |
| writing. Readers can experience a musical quality | | | | into the Void. . . |
| living within the pages of the Earth Vision material. | | | | There is no sound now. No movement. Only |
| In fact, the overall composition of the first book, | | | | silence and stillness. And a soft imperceptible glow. |
| the travelogue, begins with a prelude and ends | | | | The mystery has begun. |
| with a coda. The prelude is offered here as an | | | | |