“Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us to enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf.”
“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”
— Khalil Gibran
The profound connection between humanity and nature needs to be rewinded. In our increased urbanised technology driven lives we often forget to appreciate the simple joys which nature provides.The earth yearns for our presence, our touch, our inclusivity through all senses,which shows a symbiotic relationship we share with her. Zephyr’s gentle caress or a fierce gust, playing rustling with our locks, brings out hundred hidden emotions from us.
Live Nature through your senses
Take a deep breath, sniff air around you
Follow your nose to sweet musky blossom
Rub a fuzzy leaf to pick up a spicy scent
Look for the seed pods and pine cones
Search a smell around you!
Run your fingers over fruits flowers stems
Experience the different textures they weave
Surfaces that are buttery smooth and cool
Rough and wrinkly, tickly, prickly, fuzzy, soft
Search for a feel around you!
Explore the nature as season changes around
As the soft down bursting from rough looks
Smooth pine cones clinging to spiky conifers
Split milk weed pods to oozing magic of life
Search different sights around you!
Hear some noisy sounds amidst the utter silence
Grasses rustling, birds chirping, insects buzzing
Delightfully noisy seeds crunching underfoot
Branches creaking as cardinal calls distinctively
Search for sounds around you!
The nectar dripping, edible berries and flowers
Have a taste which you may not find anywhere
Get your wires crossed in a sensory crossover
Taste the colours feel the sound see with ears
Search for natures perfect in imperfect!
by Meenu Lodha
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