Nature and me

Well this post is actually an effort to clear up certain misconceptions people have assumed from my previous post.

 

I love Nature... no doubt about it. I can stare at it and think about it for hours together but no I am not a nature watcher (i don't know if i am using the proper word) .. what I mean is I do not study nature. I can listen to the sounds of birds and look at them but don't tell me to recognise them, i cannot(i am not talking about crows and sparrows , if that is what came to ur mind). I always stare at the starlit night sky but then i cannot tell you which group of star is which constellation.. (the only one I can recognise is the "Saptarishi").. or differentiate the planets from the stars for sure.. i can try but then everyone can do that. Loving nature doesnt mean i wander in forests in search of rare species or i can go to a jungle and stare at the eyes of tiger just because its a part of Nature. Well okey, tiger is too big a thing, i have my fears for smaller creatures as well... snakes, scorpions (which this rainy season has brought before me quite a lot of time). I cannot look at a tree and say its biological name (or even the common name sometimes). Yes, i look at the moon too often, but then that doesnt mean i can look at it and say which month or season or time of the year it is... i prefer refering to the calendar for that. Sea, for example is a beautiful aspect of nature... i love to watch the waves rise and fall... but plss do not ask me if it is low tide or high tide. I love watching clouds, their varied shapes but no, i cannot tell u if they are Stratus or Cumulus (there was one more, i dont even remember the name). And I love seasons but may be sometimes i am not even sure which month is for which season (except winter and summer ... and rain too)

 

I look at nature in everyday life ... the same things which even you notice. I look at raindrops (can i help it, if i am stranded somewhere for the want of an umbrella)... falling leaves (even you would if u were sitting/standing beneath a tree at the season of fall), the sky, stars, floating clouds,moon, sun (if its not so bright).. flowing streams, flowers, butterflies... aspects which no one can miss. I look at sunset, sunrise (although rarely), falling and rising of waves, trees, stones, scintillating dewdrops... havent you seen these too?? I hear the "music" nature (thats how I refer it) in the "chirping" birds, "whispering" wind, "rustling" leaves, the "rattling" brook , the "gushing" rapids or even the soft sounds of flowing river. I claim that i can listen to "silence" but isn't "zero" a number too?

 

And i agree they do titilate my senses... that they are reasons why so may thoughts are cooked in my small mind.Yes, i can relate nature to anything. Give me a situation and i will tell you in which aspect of nature you can find it. Agreement or diagreement is ofcourse possible. I can find moments in raindrops, passing time in flowing river, moods in seasons, expressions in flowers, emotions in sky... inspiration as well as depression in natural phenomenon .... just anything in nature and even the whole nature in anything... like myself.

I am a part of this world
This world, a part of me
Every aspect of nature
In me, you can see

No, i am not a philosopher, thinker may be, but then everybody thinks... isn't that what human mind is for?