A RENEWED APPRECIATION FOR NATURE 🌿 I'm so happy to hear that many are feeling a draw to nature during this crisis. From house plants to the changing season felt during walks around their neighbourhood. I personally can't take a walk without stopping to smell the roses & say hi to the birds (even under normal circumstances) to the point where it irritates my walking companions. 🙈 Time outside feels so much sweeter at the moment. Perhaps this time of #stayinghome is leading us to appreciate things we usually take for granted? Here is an excerpt from a wonderful piece, 'On Confinement' in the Book of Life by @theschooloflifelondon shared with me by @why_gracie_why : "It is extremely rare properly to delight in flowers when one can at any point take off to another continent. There are so many larger, grander things to be concerned about than these small delicately-sculpted fragile manifestations of nature. However, it is rare to be left entirely indifferent by flowers when the world has narrowed dramatically and there is global sadness in the air. Flowers no longer seem like a petty distraction from a mighty destiny, no longer an insult to ambition, but a genuine pleasure amidst a litany of troubles, an invitation to bracket anxieties, a small resting place for hope in a sea of difficulties." www.theschooloflife.com/thebookoflife/on-confinement . . . #onconfinement #schooloflife #stayhomestaysafe #natureappreciation #springinlondon (at Hampstead Heath) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_p7JsbnaM3/?igshid=1bnlm7daih7hz