Topic Tags: nature

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The toy Solar System / gets the revolutions right / but a true scale model / would take up half of town / .
a horizon with the slight orange glow of a sun setting underneath a dark purple night sky dotted with stars and a cloud formation
“The stone, once mud  at the bottom of the ocean / pressed into rock by time, / will outlast me.”
large rock jutting into the water. A person stands on the rock's edge looking out into a bright, cloudy horizon
Words to inspire the act of going into nature and finding a rock for sitting.
a person sitting on a large rock looking into the sea
“You are / the most faithful of flora…”
Air Plant
“I touch the rough bark of a tree and it speaks, but only / in leaves and branches…”
an image of a tree with bark prominet stretching up the a blue sky
“These seeds will fly without help…”
pods of milkweeds, with one open
“Soon, the glory of the divine will appear / so naturally, and so inconspicuously…”
a Magnolia tree blossoming
“We’ve escaped Chicago’s winter glad to take in Tucson Sun / as he paints the mountains / in unending displays of shapes…”
sunset over the clouds
“Each breath a prayer. Each breath a Hope.”
the night sky over mountains
“I leave my safe haven / this night of purity and sighs”
close up of fig tree leaves and branches against blue sky

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