Tag: Nature
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Birches
I like to think some boy’s been swinging them.But swinging doesn’t bend them down to stayAs ice-storms do. Often you must have seen themLoaded with ice a sunny winter morningAfter a rain. They click upon themselvesAs the breeze rises, and turn many-coloredAs the stir cracks and crazes their enamelSoon the sun’s warmth makes them shed…
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Rambling by the Book
I read a few more chapters from Rewilding Yourself when the spell gradually dawned that there is more nature beyond the garden gate! So on Tuesday, the sunshine goaded me to wrap up warm, pull on my boots and investigate the perimeter of the local recreation ground. The profusion of native Geraniums sprouting in the…
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Nature and the Mind Pirates
(Or ‘Why does this blog exist?’) The original idea was simply to provide a few bee plants that were robust and able to maintain themselves with minimum attention or interference from me. But it all took on a life and momentum of its own, which has taken me by surprise. Apart from the few bought…
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Bewitching Compulsion
‘The force that through the green fuse drives the flower’ Dylan Thomas hthttps://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/the-force-that-through-the-green-fuse-drives-the-flower I read an interview with Julia Cameron (nothing to do with David) that referenced this line and it bewitched me instantly. It seems to encapsulate exactly and succinctly what I had endeavoured to convey recently. The beauty of the phrasing making clear…
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