Lessons – A visit to the Botanical Garden

May 6, 2015 by nadel&gabel

Im Treibhaus Mathilde Wesendonck Hochgewölbte Blätterkronen, Baldachine von Smaragd, Kinder ihr aus fernen Zonen, Saget mir, warum ihr klagt? Schweigend neiget ihr die Zweige, Malet Zeichen in die Luft, Und der Leiden stummer Zeuge, Steiget aufwärts süßer Duft. Weit in sehnendem Verlangen Breitet ihr die Arme aus, Und umschlinget wahnbefangen Öder Leere nicht’gen Graus. Wohl, ich weiß es, arme Pflanze: Ein Geschicke teilen wir, Ob umstrahlt von Licht und Glanze, Unsre Heimat ist nicht hier! Und wie froh die Sonne […]

Categories: Behind the camera, nature • Tags: bamboo, botanical, children, fern, flora, flower, garden, greenhouse, landscape, life, photography, plant, rain forest, succulents, tree, tropical

Pause and move

January 1, 2015 by nadel&gabel

Now here it is – the new year – with all its unwritten stories, plans, expectations and hopes… We started the new year the way we ended the now gone 2014 – in a slowed down and relaxed rhythm that you can truly follow only during this peculiar period “between the years”. This time the sudden – although not unexpected – onset of winter intensified this feeling of a temporary standstill. Like if nature wanted to tell us to decelerate, […]

Categories: Behind the camera, Black and white, Blogging, nature • Tags: blogging, Germany, landscape, life, nature, New Year, photography, snow, thought, winter

Not saving the world … but at least planting a tree

August 3, 2014 by nadel&gabel

If I am reflecting my life – my approch to comsumption, to live, my everday routines – during the last years I can definitely see a growth in consciousness. It’s about appreciating the priceless things in life that are indeed so invalueable (In some way I had to learn it the hard way.). It’s about reflecting me as a consumer, setting more value on healthy, ecological, fair produce, thinking about the necessity of habits, trying to re- or upcycle things […]

Categories: Blogging • Tags: blg, blogging, carbon, consumption, ecological, emission, energy, fair, internet, life, neutral, plant, style, sustainable, tree