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Looking to Nature
“Beautiful things are important, to take you beyond the mundane things in life. And of course beauty is a many faceted thing — a different mindset, a different moment, can change what is considered beautiful. To look upon beauty and appreciate it for its beauty, no desire to have or hold, but simply to appreciate it, that is a reason for living …”
The words above were written in my ‘Wise Words?’ notebook, or in one of my other places I’ve been recording my thoughts that seem wise ones to me. And when I think on beauty, I think to Nature, often. There are many, many beautiful things in Nature, sunrises and sunsets, clouds floating in their brilliant blue backdrop, flowers, of course, birds, other animals and trees, always trees, in increasing numbers, I am loving trees!
Those trees, oh those trees, how I love the elegant curves of the eucalypt trees on our own property and along the roads I often travel within my region (South Australia). Pine trees have a stately allure too, but the eucalypt, or gum tree, with its lovely blossom to call to birds to come for a feed, and its marvellous ability to come back after near devastation, who could not love these fine…
