Broad-leaved sycamores and weary-hearted women
George Eliot writes sensitively and movingly of the early manifestation of Methodism. She wrote Adam Bede around 1850 but set...
Enchanting woods and beautiful trees
The detail, delicacy and richness of Dorothy Wordsworth's descriptions of nature are worthy of Thoreau (whose journal I am now...
Spectre-pale beech
Orlando has a candid relationship with her often absent husband Bonthrop. He visits when he can, and sometimes when he's...
Mineral metaphor
Saint-Exupery takes your breath away with the originality of his metaphors. That peace is greater than the sum of its...
A dancing class for trees
Something utterly comforting about orchards, especially old and haphazard ones. But I never thought of them as a dancing class...
Understatement – dead or alive?
Jane Austen is a fount of wryness. Here she is playfully, gently breaking some bad news of the state of...
Tree reflecting banks
A river lined on both sides with tree-covered banks, reflected in the water and in each other.  As you follow...
Of guardian trees
A beautiful way to convey the kind, protective presence of someone quietly keeping an eye on the well-being of another. ...
Acorn-bearing boughs
This is the season of acorn crunching paths, after the boughs have released them. A couple of times on my...
Wind-twisted pines
This reminds me of hardy, gnarled little trees seen on wind-blasted hilltops in England, shaped by and leaning with the...
Of time and trees
Saint-Exupéry shows starkly how war changes the calculus on a sixpence. Trees which have been nurtured and enjoyed for hundreds...
Bristled serpents of ivy
A perfect description of those thick cords of ivy rope that wrap themselves around trees, eventually suffocating them.
Love writingredux.com? Â Enjoy our sister sites:
www.foolsareeverywhere.com  I   www.nuannaarpoq.com  I  www.spyderceleste.com  Â
© Beatrice Otto 2023 - design & content unless otherwise stated - all rights reserved