Nature
Get outdoors to stay healthy, happy, and hopeful.
As Paulo Coelho says, “It’s the simple things in life that are most extraordinary.” And that’s what nature is for you. It gives you spectacular gifts. Open a door, walk outside, and soak up nature. It’s incredible to discover how many great beautiful gifts we receive when we take an excursion in the natural state.…
Read MoreHere are three inspirational activities to elevate a writer’s creativity
“People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in a particular, the focused, well-observed, or the specifically imagined.” The Artist Way Every writer needs to find ways to be more creative. Inspiration is waiting from everyday things and…
Read MoreIncrease your creativity with a journey to ancient civilizations
“Leonardo da Vinci travels to the Holy Land to uncover a secret that has shaped the fate of all civilizations.” ― Amerigo Consta, Codex: The Origin of Thought During this period, with extra time at home, you have an excellent opportunity to discover new worlds and expand your creativity. You may…
Read MoreHow to enrich your lockdown time with a life changing reading experience
This lockdown time may be the best thing to help you grow and improve your wellbeing. You may ask, what can improve my wellbeing? It’s reading and reading lots of books. In an article, Neil Gaiman – Why our future depends on libraries, reading, and daydreaming – he suggests that reading fiction for pleasure is…
Read MoreYou’ll fall in love with the great steam railway trip to Bronte country’s literary adventure
Like great creative people such as Leonardo da Vinci and Frank Lloyd Wright whose nature studies inspired their works of art, Charlotte Bronte too used nature to enrich her writings. Charlotte Bronte makes use of nature’s imagery throughout “Jane Eyre,” and comments on both the human relationship with the outdoors and human nature. The Oxford…
Read MoreWhy nature adventurers should add a trip from Paris to Jules Verne’s home to their bucket list.
“The sea is everything. It covers seven-tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert; where a man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.” Jules Verne Jules Verne enjoyed living in Amiens. He called it a “levelheaded, polite, even-tempered town” with a “cordial…
Read MoreAre your looking for an ultimate family nature friendly trip?
Green Travel Benefits Finding enjoyment with a vacation that offers extra benefits is the best part of nature-friendly travel. You’re probably a green traveler if you want more meaningful, challenging, and adventurous experiences in your travels with sensitivity and responsibility for the environment and the local cultures. I consider myself nature-friendly since I like to…
Read MoreWhy self-discovery saves your life.
Wise men knew that the first thing we need to do to live a good and happy life is to find ourselves. Mastering others is a strength; Mastering yourself is true power.” -Lao Tzu, Chinese Taoist Philosopher. “Know thyself.” The meaning of these two words is attributed to the Greek philosopher Socrates and inscribed in…
Read MoreWHY YOU NEED AN ADVENTURE VACATION
How often have you come back from your vacation exhausted, only to be waking up early the next morning to go back to work? Do you ever feel like it would be great to have a few days to relax and unpack before getting back to the grind? Or better yet, would you like to…
Read MoreFive Reasons to Visit the Land of Shangri La
Find out if there was a reason that James Hilton, the British author of 1933 novel Lost Horizon chose the Himalayas as the location for the place called Shangri-La as the mythical utopia. In his novel, Shangri-La was an earthly paradise, a permanently happy land where people stayed young for a hundred years. Do you…
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