We have a calling: a need to be close to Nature, where she may cleanse our souls and wash away the stresses of yesterday. It is emotional recompense for the cost of living.

Everything from the humble woodlouse to specks of dust moving through a ray of sunlight. Each tells a story.

Study the nature around you, but also within you.

Be seasonal, ethical and gentle.

Seek and see beauty in the watery world.

Nature, in her untamed state, is savage and unrelenting.

Stop and unplug,” say I; “look around you, at the vastness and greatness of the natural world.” Some stop. Others need binoculars to tie their shoelaces.

The more we try to control nature, the more imbalanced our world becomes.

Nature, it seems, has a way of returning things to how they should be.