Living with Nature at Home. "Nature is not a place to visit, it is home"

                                    Living with Nature at Home

"Nature is not a place to visit, it is home"  

 - Gary Snydera, American poet and environmentalist

Dr Abe V Rotor

"Whose children are these

braving the sun

and caring none

'til their work is done?

Whose children are these

writing history on sand

with pure bliss 

sent by your Son?"

- AVR

"Childhood is ephemeral like a dream;

as if only yesterday as it may seem."

- AVR 

"Hush!  Suddenly the world became still;

Gone is the lark or the raven on the sill."

- AVR

"When the wind and waves

lay down their wrath,

and make peace

with the sand and hills,

the sea breathes

on the reef and pools,

where vacationers scan,

unburdening their thoughts,

while the image of heaven

lies under their feet."

- AVR

"If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere." –Laura Ingalls Wilder

"Drip, drip, drip, may be music

to the ear in the park;

but not behind walls

or some forgotten arch."

- AVR

"Let's build a temple of worship of trees

in a little corner down the glen;

rebuild the ruins laid by life at ease, 

and bequeath them to our children."

- AVR

“Nature is loved by what is best in us.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The valley, the river, the mountain,

big as they are - they're the small;

and the small are the biggest;

the birds, the crawlers, the bees."

- AVR

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.” –Frank Lloyd Wright

"I hear the singing of angels,

As the winds weave through the green,

And brush my face with a thousand needles,

To feel the touch of a hand unseen."

- AVR

"I lie here in the morning sun, the sun that finds me through the honeysuckle leaves, and I think of the sweetness my heart has, and the sweetness of many hearts." –Peggy Pond Church

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"How wonderful is creation

when we realize in a miniscule

the universality of the simple

linked to the complex,

where every living thing is part

of life's interrelationship;

like a chain, its strength 

is shared by all links

in place cooperating."

- AVR

We can never have enough of nature." –Henry David Thoreau

"A gem sparkle before it loses light

as shadows fall when the light is out;

no less than beauty that fades in sight, 

save some steps that move about."

- AVR

"Pleasance to you youth, bright as the sun;

Be the world at war, or at peace;

Ask not where have all the flowers gone;

Season come and go the same at ease."

- AVR

"Where we all came from, 

to our final sojourn, 

once th soul is freed, 

begins the atom,

that returns unknown."

 - AVR 

"The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature." –Joseph Campbell

AUTHOR'S NOTE:  Verses from Light in the Woods, AV Rotor 1995, Megabooks; Don't Cut the Trees, Don't, AV Rotor UST 2005