“Among the trees” When I am among the trees, especially the willows and the honey locust, equally the beech, the oaks and the pines, they give off such hints of gladness. I would almost say that they save me, and daily. I am so distant from the hope of myself, in which I have…
Category: learning from Nature
NATURE POEMS: “A message from a Calliope Hummingbird” (“Un mensaje de un colibrí caliope”) Amira
“A message from a Calliope Hummingbird” Is it a moth? So quick and small… Perhaps a dragonfly… or a butterfly in the distance? What an amazing existence! Zipping and darting through flowers At this early hour! What a discovery! It’s the tiniest forest hummingbird That I have ever observed! The calliope hummingbird, A…
NATURE POEMS: “Camping by the lake” (“Acampando junto al lago”) Amira
Camping by the lake In the early hours of the morning light I opened my eyes and I could suddenly see A gaggle of majestic wild geese Silently grazing by our site… Then Mamma appeared With her three downy soft chicks All so curious, following near, While mimicking all her moves…
AMERICAN POEMS: “The daring one” (from an older post) by Edwin Markham
I would my soul were like the bird That dares the vastness undeterred. Look, where the bluebird on the bough Breaks into rapture even now! He sings, tip-top, the tossing elm As though he would a world overwhelm. Indifferent to the void he rides Upon the wind’s eternal tides. He tosses gladly on the…
“Love Thy Nature” – A Video from Uplift TV from Anita @ One Light. One Source. (re-blogged)
Originally posted on One Light. One Source.:
A very beautiful film produced by Sylvie Rokab and published on UpliftTV! It is described on their site in this way: “The winner of 27 awards, this film reveals how a relationship with nature ignites a sense of meaning and wonder so profound that it touches us at…
From an older post: “ADVICE FROM A RABBIT” by Ilan Shamir (Consejos de un conejo)
Be a good listener
Eat plenty of greens
Let your dreams multiply
Know when to be still
BEAUTIFUL POEMS: “Tai Chi” (from an older post)
-The old man meditates and sighs dissolving his self into the iridescent vibrations of Tai´Chi.
POEMS : “Life’s mystery in a Grain of Sand” by Robert William Service
If starry space no limit knows
And sun succeeds to sun,
There is no reason to suppose
Our earth the only one.
From an older post: “ADVICE FROM A BUTTERFLY” by Ilan Shamir (Consejos de una mariposa)
Get out of your cocoon
Take yourself lightly
Look for the sweetness in life
Take time to smell the flowers
From an older post: “ADVICE FROM A GARDEN” by Ilan Shamir…(Consejos de un jardín)
Sow seeds of kindness.
Listen to “sage” advice.
Don’t let little things “bug” you.
POEMS: “All Nature Has A Feeling” (From and older post)
All nature has a feeling: woods, fields, brooks
Are life eternal: and in silence they
Speak happiness beyond the reach of books;
POEMS: “Where the sidewalk ends” (take some time to be in nature) & inspirational video (from an older post)
Yes we’ll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
and we’ll go where the chalk-white arrows go,
for the children, they mark, and the children, they know,
