Nature Natters

18/12/2023

19/12/2022

First attempt..
Natural dried foliage on a grapevine wreath.
I will be making more of these indoor wreaths in the new year i if anyone would like one! 💚

09/08/2022

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01/08/2022

Nature is healing ✨️

24/03/2022

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🍃 ​We are by Maria Montessori's views on and her quotes on . ​🍃

🌿 ​"There is no description, no image in any book that is capable of replacing the sight of real trees, and all the life to be found around them, in a real forest. Something emanates from those trees which speaks to the soul, something no book, no museum is capable of giving." [1]

🌿 ​"There must be provision for the child to have contact with nature, to understand and appreciate the order, the harmony and the beauty in nature… so that the child may better understand and participate in the marvelous things which civilization creates." [2]

🌿 ​"Education is not something which a teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being. It is not acquired by listening to words, but in virtue of experiences in which the child acts on his environment." [3]

🌿 ​"Modern observations and child-study have led us to realize that as soon as the child can go out of doors, we must take him with us." [3]

🌿 ​"It is also necessary for his psychical life to place the soul of the child in contact with creation, in order that he may lay up for himself treasure from the directly educating forces of living nature." [4]

🌿 ​"Let the children be free; encourage them; let them run outside when it is raining; let them remove their shoes when they find a puddle of water; and, when the grass of the meadows is damp with dew, let them run on it and trample it with their bare feet; let them rest peacefully when a tree invites them to sleep beneath it's shade; let them shout and laugh when the sun wakes them in the morning as it wakes every living creature that divides its day between waking and sleeping." [5]

🌿 ​"When children come into contact with nature, they reveal their strength." [5]

1. From Childhood to Adolescence. Maria Montessori. 2.The Secret of Childhood. Maria Montessori. 3. The Absorbent Mind. Maria Montessori. 4. The Montessori Method. Maria Montessori. 5. The Discovery of the Child. Maria Montessori.