Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Nature is constantly active, creating and destroying in endless cycles of motion.
- In plain terms
- Nature is always working, changing and moving things around.
- What can you take from it?
- Change is constant in the natural world.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How does change show in your life?
- What cycle are you in?
Another view
The idea of constant motion can be exhausting to follow.
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Nature is always lovely, invincible, glad, whatever is done and suffered by her creatures. All scars she heals, whether in rocks or water or sky or hearts.
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