Nature's Gifts

Go outside.

Don’t tell anyone and don’t bring your phone.

Start walking and keep walking until you no longer know the road like the palm of your hand, because we walk the same roads day in and day out, to the bus and back home and we cease to see.

We walk in our sleep and teach our muscles to work without thinking and I dare you to walk where you have not yet walked and I dare you to notice.

Don’t try to get anything out of it, because you won’t.

Don’t try to make use of it, because you can’t.

And that’s the point.

Just walk, see, sit down if you like.

And be.

Just be, whatever you are with whatever you have, and realize that that is enough to be happy. 

There’s a whole world out there, right outside your window. You’d be a fool to miss it.

-Charlotte Eriksson
 

The Best Kind of Change

A water lily is born underneath the water, inside the soil at the bottom of the river or lake. And the water lily has always been a water lily for that whole time that it was sprouting out of the wet soil, reaching up through the dark water towards the sunlight, stretching and grasping for the surface; where it then buds and blooms on the outside in the sunshine. It doesn't bud and bloom on the surface and then try to reach down below into the soil. 

The best kind of change is a change that comes from the inside and begins its way out until it emerges on the outside; a change that is born underneath and continues to spread until it has reach the surface. That's a true change. A powerful change.

While we are emerging, changing to something glorious, it is actually us becoming who we really are.

-C. JoyBell C.
 

We Need the Tonic of Wildness

“We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.” - Henry David Thoreau, from Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
 

Of all the paths...

"Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt." - John Muir 

Nuture with Newness

What is within us, surrounds us. What happens to us, becomes us. We must nurture ourselves with new experiences and surroundings. In doing so, we tacitly accept our altered futures: once immersed, we will never be the same.

- Everthrive