"With sudden stir the startled forest sings Winter's returning song..." John Clare (1793-1864) - of the UK's greatest nature poets.
John Clare Quotation
26 Nov 2022 2 Comments
in aros, Quotations Tags: aros, forest, John Clare, nature poet, song, winter
Libraries
11 Aug 2021 6 Comments
in aros, Quotations Tags: aros, dangerous road, libraries, piblic, support
Read this recently and felt it needed sharing here ….
“In recent years libraries have come under overwhelming financial strain………….. These institutions and their staff deserve recognition, support and financing, as the day that we allow free and public centres of learning to degrade or disappear is a step down a dangerous road.”
Rob Cowen, Journalist and nature writer.
Solstice Blessings
21 Jun 2021 1 Comment
in aros, Quotations Tags: aros, flowers, quotation, solsice, sun, trees, world
"The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy." Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)
Gardens – A Quotation
20 May 2021 5 Comments
in aros, Quotations Tags: garden, John London, poor man, rich man
‘A poor man will eat better, that has a garden of his own, than a rich man that has none.’
John London, Encyclopaedia of Gardening published in 1822
Informed?
10 Dec 2020 2 Comments
in aros, Quotations Tags: aros, informed, Mark Twain, newspaper, read
Quote for the day – it seems apt for the strange times we live in:
“If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed.
If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.”
Mark Twain
Bani Adam
01 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in aros, Quotations Tags: aros, Bustan, Gulistan, human, pain, quotations, Saddi Shirazi, sympathy
I have only recently discovered the Persian poet Saadi Shirazi, having come across the quotation I am sharing today and which seems so apt for modern times. Saadi lived from 1210 to around 1291 or 92 and is acknowledged for his wisdom. Like Shakespeare, he is often quoted without knowing where the quotation comes from! He is best known for his two major works; Bustan (The Orchard) which is in verse and Gulistan (The Rose Garden) which is a mixture of prose and short poems. The following quote is from Bani Adam which is part of the Gulistan.
“Human beings are members of a whole,
In creation of one essence and soul.
If one member is afflicted with pain,
Other members uneasy will remain.
If you have no sympathy for human pain,
The name of human you cannot retain.”
(Saadi)
There have been many translation of this quotation. The above is by A. Hart Edwards
Lone Magpie
11 Oct 2019 7 Comments
in aros, Musings, Quotations Tags: aros, bird feeders, magpie, Mount the Air, The Unthanks
A lone magpie visited my bird feeding station this morning. It brought to mind the traditional rhyme about magpies:
One for sorrow,
Two for joy,
Three for a girl and
Four for a boy.
Five for silver,
Six for gold and
Seven for a secret
that’s never told.
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This has been recorded as a most beautifully haunting song by The Unthanks on their ‘Mount the Air’ album.
Sorry, I can’t share the video here but check it out on YouTube.
Search ‘The Unthanks – Magpie’.
Gardening Quote
26 Aug 2019 1 Comment
in aros, Quotations Tags: aros, gardening, Lou Erickson, perspiration, water
“Gardening requires a lot of water —
most of it in the form of perspiration.”
Lou Erickson, critic and poet
Another Quote
15 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in Quotations Tags: air, aros, Earth, nature, plunder, Pope Francis, sickness, soil, water
“We have come to see ourselves as lords and masters of the Earth,
entitled to plunder her at will. The sickness evident in the soil,
in the water, in the air and in all forms of life are symptoms
that reflect the violence present in our hearts. We have forgotten
that we ourselves are dust of the Earth; that we breathe her air
and receive life from her waters.”
Pope Francis, 2015
More Quotations
12 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in aros, Quotations Tags: aros, Horace, Isabella Tree, Issiah, nature, quotations, Wilding
“The cowman who clears his range of wolves has not learned
to think like a mountain.
Hence we have dustbowls and rivers washing the future into the sea.”
Horace, Epistles I, 20 BC
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“Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field
till no space is left and you live alone in the land.”
Issiah 5:8
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These quotations are also from the chapter headings to “Wilding” by Isabella Tree (see previous post)
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