Tuesday, 20 November 2012

Internal nature.

Tell me, tell me.

Do you ever find yourself overwhelmed while walking in the day? Perhaps it is the music or lack thereof, perhaps it is the taste of air, perhaps it is the warmth of the blood that travels through your bones; whatever your source of crippling emotion - the moment you are able to simply observe the world outside of yourself is when you are able to appreciate the incredulity of all existence. I have always understood the human affinity with nature as a natural component of being a part of nature and as everything is concerned with itself, this seemed only ...natural. Yet we have constructed opposing worlds we brand as 'man-made' but children remain drawn to mud and seashells over plastic pebbles and the elderly walk as the sun rises and thumbs only get greener and I never feel more comforted than when I am doing simply nothing in my backyard. We try to contain nature in zoos, gardens and photographs but if there were any subject humans have tried to conquer, nature would be our greatest rivalry. We cannot extinguish the source of life without falling into destruction ourselves. So the next time when you are walking, and you decide to slow and realise in what wonderment you are a part of, let oxygen currents charge your lungs and breathe the way bodies do and hearts need.

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