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William Haskell

“The Magic of the Mountains” is a new painting being featured at the Broadmoor Galleries at the historic Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs CO. For more info about my work check out my website www.williamhaskell.com

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Another gorgeous painting by William Haskell. It captures so much of the world here: the flat bottomed clouds hanging in the sky as the days grow warmer, the greening of the world, the movement of the wind singing through the trees, the golden grasses, but most of all the light sparkling off the blessed water running through the acequias that not long ago was a carpet of white snow under a million acres of tall, dense panderosa pine - the Jemez.

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“In the Western tradition there is a recognized hierarchy of beings, with, of course, the human being on top—the pinnacle of evolution, the darling of Creation—and the plants at the bottom. But in Native ways of knowing, human people are often referred to as “the younger brothers of Creation.” We say that humans have the least experience with how to live and thus the most to learn—we must look to our teachers among the other species for guidance. Their wisdom is apparent in the way that they live. They teach us by example. They’ve been on the earth far longer than we have been, and have had time to figure things out. They live both above and below ground, joining Skyworld to the earth. Plants know how to make food and medicine from light and water, and then they give it away.”

William Haskell