Keep your love of nature

 Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.     
Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853 - 1890)

 

PAINTING: Cornfield with Cypress. 1888.

Earth provides enough

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.  Mahatma Gandhi

According to the United Nations it would cost about $30 billion per year to fund the necessary agricultural programs to end world hunger.
I have heard that if we all stopped buying the luxury item perfume and spent the same money on agricultural programs there would be no world hunger! 
Global Industry Analysts, Inc. released a report on the Perfumes market stating the global market for fragrances and perfumes is forecast to reach over US$33 billion by the year 2015. 

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where the earth meets the sky and the sea

Wishing you a peaceful holiday time.

We will be relaxing with family and friends but also enjoying:
continuing to remove bracken fern from the blue gum area on our farm and any other noxious weeds, watering our herbs and veges and fruit trees in the evenings, and relishing summer salads and fruits. We may even try preserving the peaches again if we get a bumper crop. (This will depend on the birds and the success of our new bird nets.)  

Through a forest

            Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. 

John Muir

Find a Forest to explore - World Wide resources

Do you agree with John Muir? Are you a "woods" person or maybe you are a "sea" person?

Touch the earth daily

"For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee!"

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee!"

 Ralph Waldo Emerson

To Alex

Here is the earth the sky the sea

You are part of the great mystery.

Native American Wisdom

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.

Young Navajo boy on horse - Monument Valley - Arizona - 2007