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Wisdom : Juvenal
Nature and wisdom always say the same. Juvenal The illlustration is copyright: LilKar via Shutterstock
Nature: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is rich, but the inexhaustible wealth of nature. She shows us only surfaces, but she is a million fathoms deep. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 The illustration is copyright: Lightspring via Shutterstock
Nature: Francis Bacon
Nature is not governed except by obeying her. Francis Bacon 1561-1626 The illustration is copyright: Ammit Jack via Shutterstock
Nature: William Penn
It were happy if we studied nature and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain and most reasonable. William Penn 1644-1718 The illustration is copyright: beboy via Shutterstock
Miracles: Walt Whitman
Why, who makes much of a miracle? As to me I know of nothing else but miracles, Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky, Or wade with naked … Continue reading
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Tagged beauty of nature, Bees, honey, Love, Miracles, nature, the environment, Walt Whitman
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Our Hold On The Planet: Robert Frost
We asked for rain. It didn’t flash and roar. It didn’t lose its temper at our demand And blow a gale. It didn’t misunderstand And give us more than our spokesman bargained for; And just because we owned to a … Continue reading
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Tagged climate, ecology, environment, nature, Our hold on the planet, Robert Frost, Weather
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Nature’s Gifts: Pamela Brown
May you, just once or twice in your lifetime, see something infinitely rare and strange and beautiful. I wish you delight of plants – the small miracles of graft and cutting, seed and bulb and corm. Of new life from … Continue reading
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Tagged Gardening, green signs, nature, new life from the earth, signs of spring, small miracles, Spring, the green blade riseth
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A Song Of The Weather: Flanders and Swann
January brings the snow Makes your feet and fingers glow. February’s ice and sleet Freeze the toes right off your feet. Welcome March with wint’ry wind Would thou wert not so unkind. April brings the sweet Spring showers On and … Continue reading
Spring Is Always Late: Anthony Trollope
The comic almanacs give us dreadful pictures of January and February; but, in truth, the months which should be made to look gloomy in England are March and April. Let no man boast himself that he has got through the … Continue reading
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Tagged almanacs, Anthony Trollope, Cold Spring, doctor thorne, Dr Thorne, late spring, nature, Winter
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Ripening Grapes: Galileo
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) The illustration is copyright: Konstantin Sutyagin … Continue reading
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