“However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.”
-Ivan Turgenev
Tag Archives: Nature
Like a River
“I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.”
-John O’Donohue
Gardening Grace
“Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.”
-May Sarton
Simple Religion
“This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Nature, Your own mind, Your own heart is the Temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.”
-Dalai Lama XIV
The Secrets of Life
“Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself. ”
-L Wolfe Gilbert
Your World for a Moment
“If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for a moment.”
-Georgia O’Keeffe
Rejoice Like a Child
“All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.”
-Marie Curie
A Serious Thing…
“…it is a serious thing
just to be alive
on this fresh morning
in the broken world.”
-Mary Oliver
Let Self Isolation Bring You to the Forest
“Get some fresh air, some vitamin D on your face, your arms, legs and spine.
Get to know your local and abundant wild edible and medicinal weeds.
Explore your landscape, learn about you within that place.
Let self isolation bring you to the forest, hill, meadow, ocean, parkland or river.
Let its goodness feed your heart.
Journal, draw, create ritual, laugh, climb, swim, rest, sing or scream in these places; letting them hold you, as therapist, friend and ally.
Nature has your back, let it come to you.”-Brigit Anna McNeill
Purified, Cleansed and Reborn
“Sit in the forest long enough and you begin to see through animal eyes. the fog of mindlessness starts to clear and thoughts flow away like water cascading down the mountainsides into the valleys, soaking down into the soil, deep into the earth, to be purified, cleansed, and reborn back into the world. Now you are free.”
-Scott Stillman
