Trees quiver in the wind,
sailing on a sea of mist
out of earshot.
Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.
Emily DickinsonTags: art nature house haunted
The Peace of Wild Things
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
And if these mountains had eyes, they would wake to find two strangers in their fences, standing in admiration as a breathing red pours its tinge upon earth's shore. These mountains, which have seen untold sunrises, long to thunder praise but stand reverent, silent so that man's weak praise should be given God's attention.
Donald MillerTags: inspirational beauty nature god mountains praise
Were we to confront our creaturehood squarely, how would we propose to educate? The answer, I think is implied in the root of the word education, educe, which means "to draw out." What needs to be drawn out is our affinity for life. That affinity needs opportunities to grow and flourish, it needs to be validated, it needs to be instructed and disciplined, and it needs to be harnessed to the goal of building humane and sustainable societies. Education that builds on our affinity for life would lead to a kind of awakening of possibilities and potentials that lie dormant and unused in the industrial-utilitarian mind. Therefore the task of education, as Dave Forman stated, is to help us 'open our souls to love this glorious, luxuriant, animated, planet.' The good news is that our own nature will help us in the process if we let it.
David OrrTags: education beauty nature environment human-nature
Nature is my manifestation of God.
I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.
Tags: nature
Not only does the universe have its own laws, all of them indifferent to the contradictory dreams and desires of humanity, and in the formulation of which we contribute not one iota, apart, that is, from the words by which we clumsily name them, but everything seems to indicate that it uses these laws for aims and objectives that transcend and always will transcend our understanding.
José SaramagoTags: life nature understanding laws
...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?
Vincent van GoghTags: art poetry nature suicide
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid BergmanTags: words love nature kiss trick
The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.
Don RoffTags: humor life inspirational art writing nature funny
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