The most stunning trees, with their long roots spreading out like fingers, anchoring to the earth. Nature truly is a work of art... 🌳
#thicktrunktuesday
"For still there are so many things that I have never seen:
in every wood in every spring there is a different green."
JRR Tolkien, The LotR (Fellowship)
#ClassicLitMonday
September is nearing its end, Autumn colours are beginning to show, and the sun has set on my last walk in my 40s.
My 40s have been like a steep hike, hopefully my 50s are going to be more like a stroll in the park 😂
"In the merry month of May,
Sitting in a pleasant shade,
Which a grove of myrtles made,
Beasts did leap and birds did sing,
Trees did grow and plants did spring."
The Passionate Pilgrim
#ShakespeareSunday
"These trees shall be my books,
And in their barks my thoughts I’ll character,
That every eye which in this forest looks
Shall see thy virtue witness’d every where."
As You Like It, A3S2
#ShakespeareSunday
"They sat together in the evening on the tree trunk by the river. They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, of perpetual Becoming."
Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
#ClassicLitMonday
"It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,
Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt.
It lies behind stars and under hills,
And empty holes it fills.
It comes first and follows after,
Ends life, kills laughter."
JRR Tolkien, The Hobbit on
#HobbitDay
#FaustianFriday
"Woods choke off views and leave you muddled and without bearings. They make you feel small and confused and vulnerable [..] They are vast, featureless nowhere. And they are alive."
Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods
#ClassicLitMonday
"I might pursue some path, however solitary and narrow and crooked, in which I could walk with love and reverence. "
H. D. Thoreau, Essays, Reform Papers
#ClassicLitMonday
"Let’s talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs,
Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes
Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth."
RII, A3S2
#ShakespeareSunday
Today I was able to climb up to the spire of Salisbury Cathedral, and finally keep a promise I made many years ago. It has been an emotional day... but so worth it ✨️
"First rehearse your song by rote,
To each word a warbling note.
Hand in hand with fairy grace
Will we sing and bless this place.
[The Fairies sing and dance]"
AMND, A5S1
#ShakespeareSunday
"Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing. Everything is made out of Magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us."
F. Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
#ClassicLitMonday
"My eyes already touch the sunny hill,
going far ahead of the road I have begun.
So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp;
it has its inner light, even from a distance—
and changes us, even if we do not reach it."
R. M. Rilke, A Walk
#ClassicLitMonday
"The thinnest yellow light of November is more warming and exhilarating than any wine they tell of. The mite which November contributes becomes equal in value to the bounty of July."
H. D. Thoreau
Happy
#November1st
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