'Nature' ed!!

 Dear Reader

Without much ado, if one were asked to think of words that one associates with 'nature', what words would they be? For myself? beauty, nurturer, wild, equal, powerful, grave, uncontrollable, frighteningly attractive and much more . . It. Little wonder that an entire era/generation sang songs of nature and her efficacy. 

    Here is some famous celebration of nature by poets: Nature is a 'friend, philosopher and guide' (Tintern Abbey) to Wordsworth, she is someone who has the power to 'lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud' to Percy Bysshe Shelley (Ode to West Wind); she is the fatal attraction to Robert Frost 'The woods are lovely, dark and deep' (Stopping by woods) of immeasurable joy to Rabindranath Tagore 'The butterflies spread their sails on the sea of light. Lillies and jasmines surge up on the crest of the waves of light'(Gitanjali); to Sarojini Naidu, she is 'Like a joy on the heart of a sorrow, The sunset hangs on a cloud' (The Autumn); Nature is where Henry David Thoreau makes a home (Walden) and Life is metaphorically Bhumigeete (the Song of the Earth ) for Gopala Krishna Adiga . . . it is an endless list and an adventurous exploration in itself. 

        However, here are some sneak-peak at nature from my mobile/camera. Hope you will share your own perception of nature 😀

Mother Nature with her sweet little creation 😍

No wonder Robert Burns sang 'my love is like the Red, red rose'💓 (Straight from the Rose Gardens, Ooty)

Can you spot the Peacock amidst the grandeur of the green?!

Carved in Sand @Sand Museum in Mysore . . . Anywhere near the regal one?

Bats, those supposedly ominous birds (Hyderabad, Telangana)

If ever you doubt 'mother's' prowess to catch you red-handed 😏 pitcher plant, of course (Vienna)

Here's how nature inspired a painter, Prague

The spectacular miracle of the double rainbow in our own Banashankari, Bengaluru 

 

Here's how Udagamandalam (Ooty) is situated amidst forest, mountains and the lovely sky 

  

The difference between a hill station👆 and a Malenadu town-Mavinakere, Hassana, Karnataka 👇. . . 

 

 

A beautiful replica (art in a window, Vienna)

Lavender, from Vienna 

    It is indeed a joy, bliss and a blessing to be amidst nature; to behold Nature in all colours, and aura. Nothing can match her beauty, her colour--no photograph captures her essence as it is... in fact, the best camera when amidst nature is our eyes. What the eye captures, that which the mind experiences, is beyond all poetry, all photographs.  One can never get enough of nature . . . the best moments are those that remain etched in the mind's eye forever. In the words of Shakespeare (Sonnet 81)

              'Nature's wonder is beauty to behold

To behold this beauty is worth more than gold 

   I sincerely hope that we, the present humanity, will do everything and more to preserve wondrous nature for generations to come. 

Dear Reader, if you have something to say or to share about what nature is to you, please share👇 and if you are happy to read this blog, hit the follow button 👉 and if you want to, share this blog with your friends and like-minded readers.

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