What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep or cows.
No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.
No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars like skies at night.
No time to turn at Beauty’s glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance.
No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began.
A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
We have heard a lot of this poem by W.H.Davies. But what is its application?
Who does not like to have some pleasure and delectation? But do we spare some time to see the beautiful idiosyncratic view of nature? The answer is negative for most of us. Whenever we ask a small child to sketch a picture, what does he do? He instinctively gazes into his mind and builds a beautiful bucolic scene which he scribbles. Everyone wants to spend some time with nature’s wonders; everyone wants to have some leisure. But the thing of concern is that most of us are oblivious of it; we merely forget it as we keep ourselves busy in our humdrum routine.
We ought to devote some time to savor nature and for that we must give short trips to the countryside once or twice a week; or even, if possible, everyday. Albeit we have artificial pleasure in our homes, we understand the true meaning of “leisure” during such trips to the agrestic side of the world. Usually, in the outskirts of cities, we have such places. Other than bringing leisure, natural sceneries are didactic too. For example, twilight indicates the time of the defeated, the losers. Per contra, daylight indicates the time of the exultant. The artificial circulation of air that we get from fans is not as pleasant as that of nature, the trees, the oceans, rivers, et cetera. So, what do we infer from this? NOTHING IS MORE DELECTABLE THAN NATURE.
