Secrets to the wind

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, 

you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

Khalil Gibran

Treron calvus (African green-pigeon, Green pigeon)

When Africa is in your blood

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. John Burroughs

Nature does not knock

How strange that Nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! ~Emily Dickinson, letter to Mrs. J.S. Cooper, 1880