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 How to Write About Nature

Lord Thompson Manor About Nature By David Yarian.

Have you ever wanted to write about an experience you had in nature? Or integrate more of the natural world into your writing? How do you put into words what you experience in nature?

Nature confronts us with the web of Life of which we are both participants and observers. The best nature writing weaves communal meaning from the elements of this shared experience and places it before the reader in language and symbol that is accessible and understandable.

Francine Prose, in Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them believes that the best way to learn to write is to read: quality reading, she says, informs great writing. There are many great nature writers publishing today. One good way to start is by picking up an anthology of nature writing – the editor has done the work of selecting the finest writing.

Reading is an osmotic process; one soaks up language and rhythm and narrative as a plant draws water from the Earth. Writing, on the other hand, is expressive. The writer creates much as a tree bears fruit, producing words that will hopefully seed new experience within the reader of those words.

While teachers can teach writing and books can instruct, there is no substitute for doing it — writing, that is — putting words on the page without worrying if they make sense or are grammatical or are even worth keeping. Much that a teacher or book has to offer the writing student is encouragement to soldier on and to learn from the process. All the reading and instruction and wisdom and insight is within your body, awaiting your invitation to spring forth so the rest of us can see the world as you see it, for a while.

Keeping a nature journal cam be useful, as a way of training yourself in close observation and accurate description. Thoreau produced many of his published works out of material he originally wrote in his journals.

Juicing For Better Health

Lord Thompson Manor Juicing By Lourdes Amil.

Juicing is a very good way to improve your health, diet, lose weight, replace a meal, lower cholesterol. The list goes on and on because natural fruits and vegetables add nutrients to your diet. Since there are no additives they improve your digestion and provide you with needed vitamins. Some people are concern with calories and because the juices you make at home are all natural there is no need to worry about calories. The calorie spectrum is very wide with natural juices, for example, Aloe Vera Juice has approx 3 calories while orange has approx 80 calories. When you mix fruits and vegetables the calories increase but the benefits outweigh the calories.

If you are going to introduce juicing to your diet I recommend at you start of by mixing and matching fruits and vegetables that you enjoy. A good example for me is that I love carrots and I enjoy eating oranges, therefore one of the first juice recipes I tried was oranges and carrots. To this day that is by far my favorite. Another good way to develop juice recipes is to consider the V8 juice recipe and make it what you like, in other words make your own V8 recipe. Take into consideration what fruits and vegetables are in season and let that guide you as well. When you are purchasing your fruits and vegetables take into consideration were you are purchasing. You want o be able to purchase your fruits and vegetables from a reputable market. Always feel and check your fruit and vegetables, you want a ripe and fresh smelling fruit or vegetable. A ripe fruit of vegetable will give way but will not feel mushy; you want it to be firm but to have some give as well. Don’t underestimate your sense of smell, if your not sure then you may want to skip that fruit or vegetable all together.

Two of my favorite things to add to juices are garlic and ginger. For the garlic it is an acquired taste I recommend that you start with a small clover and add as you go along. The ginger is a wonderful fresh taste but again you have to add according to our taste buds. Another additive I love is Cilantro, I love the aroma and extra punch it adds to any juice.

Finally, the most important thing you can do is start juicing today, don’t worry about he calories or the recipes. The calories in juice are good to you; they help you introduce vitamins into your system and they assist you in cleansing. You can experiment with juice recipes by starting with combination of fruits and vegetables that you already enjoy and then you can build from there.