Up Close to Nature

Getting away from it all in Cumbria...

"Keep close to Nature's heart...

 

 

and break clear away, once in awhile, 
and climb a mountain  

 

or spend a week in the woods.   

Wash your spirit clean."

                                               

                                                                                                 

(John  Muir, 1838-1914)  

Beyond Ourselves

Meeting some ducks in Borrowdale, Cumbria

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space.  He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.  This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.  Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” 

(Albert Einstein)