How can a rational being be ennobled by anything that is not obtained by its own exertions?
Mary Wollstonecraft
Ennoble
verb, to improve the mind
Nature is a dictionary
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Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.
- Eugene Delacroix
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Dictionary: the universe in alphabetical order.
- Anatole France
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Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together in a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language — not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may need to read the great book which is written in that tongue.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Entangle
verb
1. to cause to become twisted together or caught in
2. to involve in difficult or complicated circumstances
1. After being taken out from their original packaging, wires, ropes, and hoses look for things to become entangled upon. If they can’t find anything, they entangle on themselves.
Thomas L, Koski
2. To the person who desires nothing and does not get entangled in desires, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity.
Swami Vivekananda
Environment
noun
1. the natural world and habitats of living creatures
2. the surroundings or place where something operates
1. The Earth is our environment to protect and the garden to tend to.
Pope Francis
2. The environment is where we all meet; where all share a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.
Lady Bird Johnson
Estuary
noun, a partially enclosed coastal body of water where the mouth of the river, freshwater mixes with salt water when the tide meets the stream
Estuaries are coastal bays, harbors, sounds and lagoons, places where rivers meet the sea.
Jim Gerlach
Finesse
noun, 1. an intricate and refined manner
verb, 2. to do something in a delicate way
1. Only beware that your appreciation of beauty is just and true; and to that end, I urge you to live intimately with beauty of the highest type, until it has become a part of you, until you have within you that finesse, that order, that calm, which puts you in tune with the finest of things in the universe, and which links you with that spirit that is the enduring life of the world.
Bertha Bailey
2. To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
Bertolt Brecht
Flower
noun, the part of the plant that bears the seeds, the blossom where fruit develops
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
Luther Burbank
Foliage
noun, the leaves of a plant or many plants
Birds which are the same color as the foliage in which they nest are less likely to be disturbed by other birds who want to drop in and chat, and therefore last longer.
Robert Benchley
Forest
noun, 1. a large area covered with trees and vegetation
verb, 2. to cover an area with trees and plants
1. We must protect the forests for our children, grandchildren, and children yet to be born. We must protect the forests for those who can’t speak for themselves such as the birds, animals, fish and trees.
Author unknown
2. Finland is the world’s happiest country; 75% of it is forested.
Happy
adjective, content, delighted or pleased
I choose to be happy because it is good for my health.
Heal
verb, to cure, treat a disease or illness, to remedy or repair
God is healing everything now.
