The madness of an autumn prairie cold front coming through... ringing throughout the house was an alarm bell that no one but Alfred and Enid could hear directly.

But Tik Tok believes everything's circular, including men and women. He says nature seems to go around and around, and that we all have bits of everything.

Sometimes, your future is already set, and there is nothing you can do about it. There are some things you just can't change, no matter how hard you work. Unfair, don't you think? It isn't an easy...

Then an odd thing happened. Britney put her finger on the ridge of the painted glass and rubbed it. It made a perfect noise. The kind of noise that goes on and on as a beautiful noise does once it has...

Sometimes it happens that you become one, in some rare moment. Watch the ocean, the tremendous wildness of it - - and suddenly you forget your split, your schizophrenia; you relax. Or, moving in the...

I wondered why so many gardens around the world focused on the healing power of plants rather than their ability to kill… I felt that most children I knew would be more interested in hearing how a...

Take a deep breath and feel the joy of life. Open your eyes and see the beauty of a dancing leaf.

He looked at the blue sky above and the green grass below and he knew he would always love this world!

The reason why some of us love when it rains is because it fills in the faults of our broken hearts and makes us feel complete, even if it is temporary.

Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still in the ooze along the tideline, though no one notices....

The air was warm and heavy as sprinkles began to fall from the clouds high above. The Triton glided through the waters and the whoosh of the ship combined with the steady beat of the rain to make a...

I am the waves of the ocean, and I am always in love with the floating white clouds. I sing along with the wind and dance along with your thoughts and imaginations.

Life is better when I get lost in natural beauty.

First, the wind would rumble in the distance like an approaching river, then he would see grass bend, pressed by a great invisible hand. The dull rumble would rise in pitch to a swishing, lashing...

Explore the deep ocean.

Nature was neither fair nor unfair. Those terms belonged to the world of men.

Mountains are giant, restful, absorbent. You can heave your spirit into a mountain and the mountain will keep it, folded, and not throw it back as some creeks will. The creeks are the world with all...

In these days of instant gratification and electronic wizardry there are still some people, real people, who do not panic when their telephones fail because the batteries need re-charging. Instead...

Plants and Books are silent Friends to Mankind. The former grows silently to let you live. The later grows you silently to 'live'.

Nature is Satan's church.

Invite Tranquility The sea, - - Something to look at When we are angry.

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach. I have heard them all, and of the three elemental...

Trees quiver in the wind, sailing on a sea of mist out of earshot.

I felt the full breadth and depth of the ocean around the sphere of the Earth, back billions of years to the beginning of life, across all the passing lives and deaths, the endless waves of swimming...

Down the hill I went, and then, I forgot the ways of men, For night - scents, heady and damp and cool Wakened ecstasy

I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.

Magnificent beauty of nature inviting you to long for her, to love her, and then purify your heart and mind with the illuminating beauty of nature.

Trees are the soul collectors come to life.

When I walk in the forest just before the meal, while reciting the scriptural phrase that I meditate for that day, spiritual joy comes over me as if by appointment.