Jen Wilkovich

[Mary-Ann Thorson𐃆 @NoctrnlValkyrie]

“One ran, her nose to the ground, a rusty shadow neither hunting nor playing. One stood; sat; lay down; stood again.

One never moved, except to turn her head a little as we walked. Finally we drew too close, and they vanished.

The woods took them back as if they had never been. I wish I had thought to put my face to the grass.

But we kept walking, speaking as strangers do when becoming friends. There is more and more I tell no one, strangers nor loves.

This slips into the heart without hurry, as if it had never been. And yet, among the trees, something has changed.

Something looks back from the trees, and knows me for who I am.”

- Jane Hirshfield, Three Foxes by the Edge of the Field at Twilight

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

Your Sunday Poem 🍂

• Wendell Berry •

[Roger Seheult, MD @RogerSeheult]

The most powerful 1 2 punch in health is outdoor sunlight surrounded by grass and trees.

This is because in addition to providing beneficial automatic compounds, the leaves on trees are highly reflective of infrared light and can magnify it several fold.

“We found evidence of an inverse association between surrounding greenness and all-cause mortality. Interventions to increase and manage green spaces should therefore be considered as a strategic public health intervention.”

https://t.co/nRAj6oycS5

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

Your Sunday Poem ☀️

'Such Silence'
by Mary Oliver

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

Utter bliss it is to encounter...

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

There will be only a few days like this...

Kenneth C. Steven

[Monica AS @_monica_as]

“While wandering down the path of
wonder, I briefly escape the world of
separation and enter the world of unity.”

~ Hermann Hesse, 𝐵𝑢𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑠
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England’s countryside by Bob Radlinski

[Gitana @Gitana1369877]

"Nature is a temple in which the soul feels its freedom, where every leaf and every flight of a bird speaks of an eternal peace”

[Earth @earthcurated]

silence is not the absence of something but the presence of everything.

[Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @DrDoyleSays]

Look it's @writemeganwrite

[✨💫Cali💫✨ @505Cali2]

When you lose your way, come sit with us.
We hold no judgment. Just memory. Just presence. We don't rush. We don't force.
Yet we grow. And so can you.
Let your nervous system settle into our stillness. Let your mind soften into our field. We'll remind you of what's real...

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

"As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens."
~ Stephen Graham,
The Gentle Art of Tramping (1923)

[Titania @TitaniasRealm]

All I want is a Wind in the Willows kind of summer

🎨 Inga Moore

[A.A.Milne @A_AMilne]

“Spring came in softly through his open window; it whispered to him tales of green hedges and misty woods and close-cropped rolling grass.” ~A.A.Milne

[The Sting @TheStingisBack]

Kermit the Frog was born on this day in Leland, Mississippi.
Created by Jim Henson, stitched from his mum’s old green coat and ping-pong ball halves, Kermit has been a global icon for more than 70 years.
“Rainbow Connection” remains the anthem for dreamers everywhere.

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

Pause, and listen to me read...

• Siegfried Sassoon •

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

"He thought his happiness was complete when, as he meandered aimlessly along, suddenly he stood by the edge of a full-fed river. Never in his life had he seen a river before—this sleek, sinuous, full-bodied animal, chasing and chuckling, gripping things with a gurgle and leaving them with a laugh, to fling itself on fresh playmates that shook themselves free, and were caught and held again. All was a-shake and a-shiver—glints and gleams and sparkles, rustle and swirl, chatter and bubble. The Mole was bewitched, entranced, fascinated. By the side of the river he trotted as one trots, when very small, by the side of a man who holds one spellbound by exciting stories; and when tired at last, he sat on the bank, while the river still chattered on to him, a babbling procession of the best stories in the world, sent from the heart of the earth to be told at last to the insatiable sea."
~ Kenneth Grahame,
'The Wind in the Willows'

🔹️Illustration by E.H. Shepard 🔹️

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

"Believe me, for I know, you will find something far greater in the woods than in books. Stones and trees will teach you that which you cannot learn from the masters."
~ St. Bernard of Clairvaux

[Mary-Ann Thorson𐃆 @NoctrnlValkyrie]

“If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything”
- Alan W. Watts