Nature

November 2025

"It became my home when I knew, absolutely and without looking, that the wind would tug loose the fireweed's seed fluff in the last week of August; when I knew where to find the fiddleheads, and could tell by the sound of the brook when they would be ready; when I could watch spindrifts of snow ghosting across the fields and remember dew-hung spider webs on a June morning. It is the small events of the natural world, the return of the swallows, the leaping grey waters of the spring brooks, that comfort me with a kind of transcendent familiarity, an ancient re-awakening."

Beth Powning, Home

October 2025

"There is, we realize with every passing year, unparalleled beauty in coming round again to that moment in the days, the weeks, the months -- the seasons -- when all the world echoes: We've been here before. And here's your chance to savour it again, to learn again. Or maybe for the first time."

Barbara Mahany, Slowing Time

September 2025

"There is a humility that comes with an interest in nature. If it does nothing else, nature can simultaneously excite us by hinting at what we can discover and humble us with our own ignorance."

Tristan Gooley, How to Read Nature

August 2025

"Why quiet amidst apocalypse?...Because God does not change and his kindness does not end, though the mountains shift and whole worlds crumble, and to actually believe this means to live a different kind of life from one tossed and overturned by news of every new disaster."

Sarah Clarkson, Reclaiming Quiet

July 2025

"For most of us, knowledge of our world comes largely through sight, yet we look about with such unseeing eyes that we are partially blind. One way to open your eyes to unnoticed beauty is to ask yourself, What if I never saw this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?"

Rachel Carson, The Sense of Wonder

June 2025

"I'm not trying to hide from the truth but to balance it, to remind myself that there are other truths too. I need to remember that the earth, fragile as it is, remains heartbreakingly beautiful."

Margaret Renkl, The Comfort of Crows

May 2025

"Hope is the boldest act of imagination I know."

Dr. Edith Eger, Holocaust survivor

April 2025

"Sitting on a headland, looking across the Channel as a squall blurs the horizon, I realize that we don't always have to seek out the easiest path, or take the one that's presented to us; sometimes it's the hardest one that holds the greatest riches."

Raynor Winn, Landlines

March 2025

"What if God's hand reaches out to us clothed in beauty, and by grasping it and trusting it, we may learn to walk through the darkness in hope?"

Sarah Clarkson, This Beautiful Truth

February 2025

"If the good God were suddenly
To make a solitary Blind to see
We would stand wondering all
And call it a miracle;
But that He gives with lavish hand
Sight to a million souls we stand
And say, with little awe
He but fulfills a natural law."

Huw Menai

January 2025

"An increasing number of studies, especially during the forced isolation of the pandemic, tell us that happiness and well-being are found not in isolated individuality but in social connection. It is through strong relationships with family, friends and community that we truly flourish... in other words, focusing upon our own unique individuality is the wrong place to look."

Graham Tomlin

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