Nature

Beauty fills your heart with warmth.

Beauty fills your mind with a world of imagination.

Beauty fills your soul with a sweet song.

Beauty stirs up emotions.

Beauty is often difficult to sum up into words.

Beauty is all around you.

Nature is God’s artwork and to describe it as beautiful does not even begin to do it justice. 

Everyone can find something they feel is beautiful in nature. 

My favorite quote from “State of the Planet” was “It must be a gift from evolution that  humans can’t sustain wonder. We’d never have gotten up from our knees if we could” 

As I read the poem, it really stuck out to me and made me think for a moment. We fail to recognize the details of nature. We take them for granted because they are not so “amazing” because we see them every day. 

If we saw the sunset on the beach in St. Lucia, lava running down the side of a volcano, the planets from a space ship, an aerial view of Hawaii, or the depths of the ocean every single day, we may not find them to be so “wondrous”. 

To think that we’d never have gotten up from our knees if we could does not mean we are in awe and want to worship the nature itself, but we are in awe of how a Creator paid so much attention to every little detail and made it beyond our intelligence. 

What would our lives be like without nature? We are surrounded by it and harmonious with it. 

God uses nature as a way to reveal Himself to those who have not heard the name of Jesus. He says that everyone is responsible because he shows himself to them through the glory of His creation. 

What else about nature is still yet to be discovered? What are the things that cannot be seen with the naked eye? Why did God create the things that we cannot even see so meticulously? 

As we have read about nature in poetry, it has helped me learn to appreciate it even more. It gives attention to the littlest aspects that we forget and describes them in a way that shines light on its wonder. It gives words to the beauty that leaves us speechless. The author, Mary Oliver, did a good job in not only describing nature, but in describing nature’s interaction with humans. 

Who defines what beauty is anyway....