Why Is Nature So Important?
If people ignore Nature, and never find awe, or delight, or hope in all that Nature can do, are they even truly alive to the world they’re in?
When I drive from my place, to Gawler, where my writing group meets, I get to see views like the one in the photograph above, and I feel excited, and ready for whatever the writing group might bring.
Then, driving the same road, in the opposite direction going home, I reflect on what we did at the group, and reflect too, on the beauty I am passing by, as I travel.
I don’t need to travel long distances to find the beautiful things in life, I am living my life amidst Natural beauty, and I am grateful for it every single day. OK, sometimes the clouds might hide the beautiful blue sky, and release flooding rains, that’s OK, the farmers need the water for the crops, and we need it for our garden.
And I have trees at home much taller than those in that photograph, and in those trees, Eucalyptus trees in fact, are birds and insects to delight my eye, and with the bird calls, my ear also.
Finding things to be happy about and even delighted in, surely these are fine things to experience, better, and so much cheaper than an expensive holiday in another country!? I haven’t even really begun seeing my own country, so why should I be in a hurry to travel to another…
