{"id":429,"date":"2014-05-13T16:03:57","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T16:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?p=429"},"modified":"2014-10-10T07:43:31","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T07:43:31","slug":"the-love-of-nature-is-deep-in-england-writes-john-stewart-collis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/13\/the-love-of-nature-is-deep-in-england-writes-john-stewart-collis\/","title":{"rendered":"Love of Nature is deep in England"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Love of Nature is deep in England<\/h1>\n<blockquote><p>The love of Nature is deep in England. And I think that what is behind this love is the instinct that Nature has a secret for us, and answers our questions. Take that foxglove over there&#8230; It stands singly where there had been such a wonderful display of bluebells that it then looked as if a section of the sky had been established upon earth&#8230; That foxglove with its series of petal-made thimbles held up for sale to the bees, puts me at ease upon the subject of \u2014 progress. It is quite obvious that the foxglove cannot be improved&#8230; The fact is we get perfection in this form and in that form&#8230; There is no point in our gazing raptly into the future for paradise if it is at our feet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2014John Stewart Collis, <em>The Worm Forgives the Plough<\/em>. Vintage, 2009. page 253.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0099529483\/ianalexanshomepa\">Buy it from Amazon.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0099529483\/ianalexswebsiteb\">Buy it from Amazon.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love of Nature is deep in England The love of Nature is deep in England. And I think that what is behind this love is the instinct that Nature has a secret for us, and answers our questions. Take that foxglove over there&#8230; It stands singly where there had been such a wonderful display of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/13\/the-love-of-nature-is-deep-in-england-writes-john-stewart-collis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Love of Nature is deep in England<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[239,200],"tags":[241,240,207,242],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-love-of-nature","category-quotation","tag-england","tag-foxglove","tag-john-stewart-collis","tag-paradise","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1697,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions\/1697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}