Healing Refrains of Nature

Rachel Carson: “Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.  There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of the birds, the ebb and flow of the tides, the folded bud ready to the spring.  There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter.  

The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for the scientists but are available to anyone who will place himself under the influence of earth, sea, and sky, and their amazing life.”

I have but one thought to add: this earth and all life were created by a wise and loving Heavenly Father for the benefit and schooling of his children.  All nature reminds us he is near.

"And behold, all things have their likeness and all things are created and made to bear record of me, both things which are temporal, and things which are spiritual; things which are in the heavens above, and things which are on the earth, and things which are in the earth, and things which are under the earth, both above and beneath: all things bear record of me." (Moses 6:63)