"I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess."
~ Walt Disney
I wouldn't say I dislike like formal
gardens. I appreciate their order and beauty. But, like Mr. Disney, I like genuine nature.
Next to being in the wilderness, I love being in natural habitat gardens and controlled chaos landscaping.
How about you? Do you have the wilderness instinct?
"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give
strength to body and soul," said John Muir.
"And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair," wrote Khalil Gibran.
It's true: We need nature and nature needs us.
We're already bonded, of course. But how often do we experience
our relationship as loving, intimate, and mutual?
Today, for health, joy, and strength to body and soul, let's experience the natural world in some way that is sensitive and sensuous, a way that is caring and pleasurable.
As I pause from writing and look outdoors, I see a hummingbird feeding, which reminds me of bees and of a quote for
consideration.
"Honey is to bees what money in the bank is to people - a measure of prosperity and well-being. But there is nothing abstract or symbolic about honey, as their is about money, which has no intrinsic value. There is more real wealth in a pound of honey, or a load of manure for that matter, than all the currency in the world. We often destroy the world's real wealth to create an illusion of wealth, confusing
symbol and substance." ~ William Longgood
Beautiful and valuable. That's nature. That's us.
Truly,
Charlene
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