“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.” – Gary Snyder In a very real sense, mountains and valleys, the seas and the skies, the sun and the earth, the trees and the flowers constitute our home, our natural habitat. Growing up in the modern developed world we can easily come to believe…
The Robin
From a broken stumped tree, I gazed down at three silences, sitting on a log. They closed their eyes and drank in the air. From the shrub and the trees opposite, through the twigs, a robin redbreast flew out dancing over the air and bouncing off the ground until he came to rest, in stillness,…
Why you should spend more time in nature
If the natural world could be packaged as a pill and sold in pharmacies it would be flying off the shelves – such are its proven physical, mental, and emotional benefits. But luckily it can’t be packaged, or sold, which is good news because it means that it’s free. All it costs you is time….