Home with Nature: "Nature is not a place to visit. It is home."

                                                 Home with Nature

Painting and Verse by Dr Abe V Rotor

"Nature is not a place to visit. It is home." - Gary Snyder

Home with Nature in acrylic (30"x17") AVR 2025

Home with Nature 

     far away from the city, 

     down to the green valley, 

              where life is happy and free.

"My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature." – Claude Monet

   

 

Details of Home with Nature painting: Birds nesting and feeding their young.

Home with Nature -

     whispers the gentle breeze

    in spring and long summer, 

    birds build nests in the trees.

"Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself." – Henry David Thoreau

  

Details of Home with Nature painting: Fish going upstream, children fishing.

Home with Nature -

    fish return to spawn 

    reptiles and frogs stir

    lively to the season.  

"For a time, I rest in the grace of the world, and am free." – Wendell Berry

 

Details of Home with Nature painting: A flock of migrating birds, a flutter of butterflies.

Home with Nature -

    birds to where they're bound, 

    stop over for a while, 

    with butterflies around.   

 

"Fresh air is as good for the mind as for the body. Nature always seems trying to talk to us as if she had some great secret to tell. And so she has." – John Lubbock

 

Details of Home with Nature painting: Waterfall, doves in the blue sky. 

 

Home with Nature -

    clouds rise from the valley, 

    water falls from the sky

    down the stream and play.   

 

"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit." - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Author with young artists: Lorenzo, Chrea Mae, April, and Joseph.

Home with Nature -

    technology not the key

    to Nature's conservation

    unless environment-friendly.

Home with Nature -

    where children are happiest

    quietly fishing all day long,

    dream - their biggest fish.

Home with Nature -

    away from the mall

    free from the cellphone,

    hurrah! to body and soul.

"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous." - Leonardo da Vinci.

Details of Home with Nature painting.

Home with Nature -

    Young artists recreating

    Nature with their hands

    in the art of painting.

Home with Nature -

   "Redeem the lost Eden,"

    great challenge to the young,

    to re-build this Garden.

                            "Nature is the art of God." - Dante Alighieri  ~