The document is a collection of poems and reflections by the author about observing and connecting with nature. It describes taking photographs of nature to slow down and appreciate the environment. The author was influenced by a scientist they interviewed who said "Be still. Many people look, but few people see." Taking photos and writing poetry helps the author find stillness and focus their attention amid distraction, following the ideas of slowing down life from Carl Honoré's book "In Praise of Slow." The goal is to engage with nature through art as a way to be friendly to the environment and slow the pace of the world.

1. Conversations with Nature by krista fogel.

3. Sweet Sun-Sipper, You’ve grown.

4. I admire your delicate Strength To sing happiness Between rocks and hard places

5. I like the way time feels with you.

6. Carpet of sentient journeys Give me more juicy gossip Of the treks you host Go ahead And share mine, too.

7. So you reckon the Vitamin D is that way?

8. Quintessence of Essence Tiny holder of majestic projections

9. I like it, too, when the Sun rises me up.

10. When I take the film Out of my mind And analyze its negatives Against the light, I can’t understand The purpose of Walking on lines So few and far apart I choose the abyss Of the spaces between.

11. Hey little girl Of cautionary kisses I commend your commitment to Two-lips I wanted to commit to two-lips too. But two became many And many became Wild And then there was a Field

12. Heart to Heart We open up ~

13. Sage of the Night Don’t leave me alone To the haphazard Tangles Of which I belong.

14. Do you remember the first time we met?

15. Queen Mother of the Ages Don’t be so sure That your child will never leave I used to be A small rock too And ended up Making friends with the current ~

16. Pink lady, Every year You’re becoming. Teach me How to renew myself like that.

17. How do you live on the edge With such elegance?

18. Even trees quiver at your movement.

19. Tricky gravity That grounds the masses Humbles us to keep Our white skirts down But You… How did you convince the wind To come underneath And lift you up?

20. What is it That you point to, Old keeper of the forest?

21. Excuse me, But I’d like to play. … Damn manmade constraints.

22. Freckled heavens Faces copy your pattern Constellations Written all over my own Come and read your fortune As I read mine We look at each other Intertwined

23. Have you always been into pink see-through underwear?

24. You make things pretty in your melancholic downpour.

25. What is so attractive About the ephemeral? Finding simple plain happiness In the silence of your plentiness You’ve come and will go Like music

26. Juliet told me That with Romeo She could move You. Can I believe her?

27. What type Of shampoo do you use?

28. Such polite colours That share the space So equally Have you all considered Running for Government?

29. You’ve set it again with your Tangled Wand

30. Transparent vendor of the Sun Sell me some of that shine The kind that goes right through My blind and opaque mind

31. Speedy Bluster Are you chasing dreams Without living the ones That have already come? Is that why you’re so grey and threatening? … I know it happens to me.

32. No one’s pretty girl. We’re left eaten By the vacancy of night. Free Untamed We let down our straggly hair.

33. Are you angry? In a rush? Upset innards? You make me blush At your hyper-licked greeting I love your fuel screaming What is it That makes you move with such purpose?

34. Twisted Spirit, I could psychoanalyze The grassroots problematic But I’d rather Join the twirl In the green of your go.

35. For who do you really stand so patriotic? I’m curious in curing my slouch.

36. Teach me to relax like that.

37. Free Spirit You’re no bowl of roses, But a field of wild flowers.