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Wading In
“Poor fish, poor flesh you can never forget.” Mary Oliver, from her poem “The Swimmer” The capricious river runs in cycles and seasons—sometimes clear and calm,other times muddy or stainedwith tannins that hide…
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More Meadow Moods
“To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter… to be thrilled by the stars at night;…
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An Eye for an Iris
“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.” Buddha
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Resting in the Green
“All I want…is to smell green, to taste air, to feel the earth want me… Phillip Pulfrey, from Love, Abstraction and other Speculations
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A Three-Nest Day
“There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.” Robert Lynd
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Live Oak
“The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment” Thich Nhat Hahn
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When the Sap Runs
“A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.” John Burroughs
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Mason and Nona’s Nature Board
“Our challenge isn’t so much to teach children about the natural world, but to find ways to sustain the instinctive connections they already carry.” Terry Krautwurst
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Society of Nuthatches
“The chickadee and nuthatch are more inspiring society than statesmen and philosophers” Henry David Thoreau
