Enjoy the earth around us...

 

The earth was green, the sky was blue:
I saw and heard one sunny morn
A skylark hang between the two,

A singing speck above the corn:

A stage below, in gay accord,
White butterflies danced on the wing,
And still the singing skylark soared,

And silent sank and soared to sing.

The cornfield stretched a tender green

To right and left beside my walks;

I knew he had a nest unseen

Somewhere among the million stalks.

And as I paused to hear his song
While swift the sunny moments slid,
Perhaps his mate sat listening long,
And listened longer than I did.

~Christina Rossetti

Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow.

- Marya Mannes