Tag Archives: Nature connection

What Can Captivate Us In Nature

Posted on November 10, 2024 by mlgray

So much can captivate our attention when wandering: wildlife moving through the landscape, variations of a bird chorus, wind rolling clouds across the sky, a lone tree standing high above a meadow. Or this. Blankness filled with texture. A seemingly … Continue reading →

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Thoreau

Posted on January 5, 2014 by mlgray

If a man walks in the woods for his love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods … Continue reading →

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Nature.

Posted on November 26, 2013 by mlgray

Thoreau’s Walden, Muir’s Mountains of California, Abbey’s Desert Solitaire, and most recently, Brower’s Let the Mountains Talk, Let the Rivers Run… I’ve been on a kick lately of reading authors’ intimate portrayals of their time in the natural world and the … Continue reading →

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