Something to Think About


Natures Simplicity and Complexity

Enjoy Nature. See its Simplicity and Understand its Complexity.

Enjoy living outside with nature. Everything is connected with nature.

Being outside on the trails brings you close to what is around you and in your heart. What is important and what is not. Your loved ones, your family, your passion, and what drives you to do what you love doing.

You can see the simplicity of living with nature, and you can understand the complexity of nature being what it is.

“A Nature Trail into the Unknown”

Let’s take a look at the Blue Dasher Dragonfly, the Chicken Turtle, and the Palmetto Tree found along the Nature Trails.

Blue Dasher Dragonfly Male

The Blue Dasher Dragonfly (Male)

A Blue Dasher Dragonfly simply lives among Florida’s natural habitats of lakes, ponds, and swamps. It likes to catch and eat the millions and millions of mosquitos we have here.

A Blue Dasher Dragonfly's complexity is how it is able to live and survive.

Chicken Turtle on Trail

The Chicken Turtle

A Chicken Turtle simply lives among Florida's aquatic wetlands.  It likes to eat the insects, small fish, or whatever it can find that is tasty in the wetlands.

A Chicken Turtle's complexity is how it is able to live and survive.

Young Palmetto Tree

The Palmetto Tree

A Palmetto Tree simply lives where it can have plenty of Florida's sunshine.  It loves the sunshine, the sandy soil, and all the rain we get here in Florida.

A Palmetto Tree 's complexity is how it is able to live and survive.

You can live simply in your home among wherever you choose.

Your complexity is how you're able to live and survive.

Your unique design of who you are, what you are, how you think, allows you to flourish and be happy with what you are.

Is that true? Why or why not?

Blue Dasher Dragonfly Female

The Blue Dasher Dragonfly (Female)

A Blue Dasher Dragonfly's unique colorful body is designed with long wings to fly a fast and acrobatic flight and be happy with what it is. 

Close up of Chicken Turtle on Trail

The Chicken Turtle

A Chicken Turtle's unique designed body and carapace/shell allows it crawl though the wetlands, bask in the sun on a log, and burrow itself under the leaves and be happy with what it is.

Tall Palmetto Tree

The Palmetto Tree

A Palmetto Tree’s unique design of a strong trunk and many palm fronds to enjoy the sunshine and withstand the heavy winds of Florida’s storms and hurricanes, allows it to flourish and be happy with what it is. 

You have something that the Blue Dasher Dragonfly, the Chicken Turtle, and the Palmetto Tree don't have.

  • You can change where you live and how you think, to flourish and be happy.

  • Don't like the hot weather?  Then move and go to somewhere where it is cool and tolerable.

  • Don't like the cold weather?  Then go somewhere where it is warmer.

  • You can change where you live and choose what to eat.  You know how to find water and maybe grow your own food.

Palmetto Fronds

“The Palm Fronds of the Palmetto Tree.’’

“They are uniquely designed to allow the heavy winds through each frond! Its design is amazing!”

Live simply, be happy.

Still unhappy and sad. Then what is it?

Make a change to be happy.

You have the mind and the ability to adapt. And to make a change.

Just do it.

Make the change to be happy again.

Live simply and be happy.

Make the change in your surroundings, in your mind, and in your heart.

“A Close-Up of the Palmetto Tree’s Trunk.”

“The unique V pattern of each branch for each frond gives it strength to hold in the heavy storms. Wow!”

Nature intended for you to be happy. Just like the Blue Dasher Dragonfly, the Chicken Turtle, and the Palmetto Tree are happy here in Central Florida.

Nature designed the Blue Dasher Dragonfly, the Chicken Turtle, the Palmetto Tree unique so they can be happy with what is all around them, wherever they live and thrive.

Nature designed you to be unique so that you can be happy with what is all around you and wherever you choose to live.

Just like the Blue Dasher Dragonfly, the Chicken Turtle, and the Palmetto Tree.

Palmetto Fronds in Sunlight

Make the change in your surroundings, in your mind, and in your heart.

Just be happy.

 

Learn to adapt, to relearn, and to grow.

Learn, love, and grow. Learn to be happy.

 

Do what it takes.

Change, adapt, grow.

 

Do it! Be happy!

For yourself, your mind, and your heart.

“A group of Palmetto Trees along the Nature Trail. They are everywhere and just beautiful! ”

Life in nature can be simple. 

Its complexity is what it needs to have to survive and flourish.

Think about your life and it can be simple.

Your complexity will allow you to survive, flourish and be happy.

Think about it.

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