Fall in love with the land where you live,
Know its lines and ways like those of a lover.

It re-members what you have forgotten,
It holds you from the feet up every day, every step.
It breathes you and feeds you and nourishes your soul.
It soothes all worries and outshines any gold.

Fall in love with the land where you live,
It has always loved you without condition or remorse.

And all your cousins the birds,
The woodlice and the toads,
Wait in grace and ever-living patience
For your return
To the garden of what was sown.

Fall in love with the land where you live,
It is the greater part of yourself.

Give up bad thinking and thoughts of despair,
All dreams of excess and dominion.
For the morning wakes early every day
To give birth to you: Vital and whole,
As the newling sun
Turns dew grass to diamonds,
And the soil is deep woven
Into the marrow of your bones.