“Wise bamboo” Soft bamboo reeds, Sway with the wind, Flexible and free! ——- Lesson: Learn non-resistance: Bouncing back, Never break!!! Amira “Bambú sabio” Cañas de bambú suaves, Mecen con el viento, Flexible y libres! ——- Lección: Aprende la no- resistencia: Rebotando, ¡Nunca se quiebran! Amira
Category: learning from Nature
MOTHER EARTH POEMS: “Mother Earth, Our Home” by Kaitlin Siena Murray
Art: Shekinah Angel of Unity | Josephine wall, Earth angel, Mother Earth, Our Home She calls me in the wind and in the waves I see her twinkle in the stars above The flutter of a butterfly is her whisper The roars of the thunder are her screams She speaks through all that surrounds…
PROFOUND POEMS: “Passerby, These are Words” by Yves Bonnefoy
Passerby, These are Words Passerby, these are words. But instead of reading I want you to listen: to this frail Voice like that of letters eaten by grass. Lend an ear, hear first of all the happy bee Foraging in our almost rubbed-out names. It flits between two sprays of leaves, Carrying the sound of…
Nature Poems: “The Peace of wild things” by Wendell Berry
The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great…
A wisdom quote: “A man’s attitude toward the nature around him, and the animals in nature, is of special importance”…
“From the earliest times, it was understood that the visible world implied the existence of an invisible world, where everything was infused with the supernatural and the felt sense of the sacred. Thomas Yellowtail expressed: ‘A man’s attitude toward the nature around him, and the animals in nature, is of special importance, because as…
NATURE POEMS: “Why I need the birds” by Lisel Mueller
Why I Need the Birds When I hear them call in the morning, before I am quite awake, my bed is already traveling the daily rainbow, the arc toward evening; and the birds, leading their own discreet lives of hunger and watchfulness, are with me all the way, always a little ahead of me…
A quote by Andreas Weber on “A scientific perspective on the intelligence of plants”
The plant that directs its growth tendency to the light does not understand the arithmetic of wavelengths; it simply perceives light as good in the form of a positive affection. […] Today’s botanists have used ingenious experiments to confirm the subjectivity of plants. [They] observed that identical plant clones — multiple vegetative twins whose DNA…
“The legacy of trees”…. amazing article (and video 18 minutes)
Like humans, trees are extremely social creatures, utterly dependent on each other for their survival. And, as it is with us, communication is key. After scientists discovered pine tree roots could transfer carbon to other pine tree roots in a lab, ecology professor Suzanne Simard set out to figure out how they did…
Nature Poems: “”We have a beautiful mother” by Alice Walker
art by Jim Warren | The Beautiful Moods of Mother Earth | Illusion art “We have a beautiful mother” We have a beautiful Mother Her hills Are buffaloes Her buffaloes Hills. We have a beautiful Mother Her oceans Are wombs Her wombs Oceans. We have a beautiful Mother Her teeth The white stones…
INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES FOR EARTH DAY
Kahlil Gibran: “Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet, and the winds long to play with your hair.” Wendell Berry: “The earth is what we all have in common.” Thomas Fuller: “He that plants trees loves others beside himself.” Cree Indian proverb: “Only when the last tree has died…
POEMS: “April Piece” — by Armchair Zen (re-blogged)
Armchair Zen Noni among the flowers April Piece Such newfound joy I behold each year When April’s song bends my ear. The robins’ whistle by the fence, The gobble of the turkey thence. The warblers chatter, the swallows dart In living, breathing, springing art. From Earth rises all manner of things, As if…
