Category Archives: nature

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“to make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,

one clover, and a bee, and revery.

the revery alone will do, If bees are few.”

-emily dickinson

in honor of world bee day

 

 

image credit: prairie honey

in every way.

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kinder take a closer look at the wooly sheep’s children

before they come over

to feel the human childrens’ gentle touch.

 

“any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own

and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.”

– john muir

find something.

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here was what I found:

  1. a fairy house in the woods
  2. a handful of wildflowers
  3. a pine bough
  4. birds
  5. meadow grass
  6. quiet beauty
  7. a heart-shaped stone
  8. stone steps to sit on and watch the river

what have your found that you are grateful for?

 

 

 

image credit: simpleacres

up close.

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kinder gets up close.

 

“you can impress from a distance, but you can only impact up close”

-howard g. hendricks

see the song.

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“when it’s cold you can see the song.”

the bird appears to be sending smoke signals as it braves sub-zero temperatures in a park in the city of petrozavodsk, russia. mikhail kalinin, 34, an electric locomotive engineer spotted the chirping bird’s condensation rising up out from it’s beak with the temperature below -5 degrees celsius.

 

 

 

 

 

 

credits: Mikhail Kalinin/Solent News

 

bare.

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bare tree at rest in early winter.

“people don’t remember each tree in a park

but all of us benefit from the trees.

and in a way, artists are like trees in a park.”

-yoko ono

 

 

kerrytown courtyard, ann arbor, mi, usa

moving.

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starlings come together and move into the shape of a giant bird.

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kinders come together to see if the birds are eating the food they’ve left for them

“do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?”

-marcel marceau

 

 

 credits: guy benson, attenborough nature preserve, bbc news east midlands

change.

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kinders find magic in the japanese garden

 seeing things change right before them. 

 

‘change is a measure of time, and in the autumn, time seems speeded up.

what was, is not and never will be;

what is, is change.’

-edwin way teale

 

a million flowers.

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“bees do have a smell, you know,

and if they don’t they should,

for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.” 

-ray bradbury – dandelion wine

 

 

summer 2018, ann arbor

the sky is the daily bread of the eyes. ~ralph waldo emerson

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‘neath bright blue sky

upon wide open fields of snow

with no end in sight

nothing to do

but to run and to play

on such

a fine

and lovely

winter’s day.

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nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere

and the circumference nowhere.

– blaise pascal