- Bill Bryson (1951 - )
A Walk in the Woods
Sunday, February 18, 2024
The Woods are Alive
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
The Silence Within
- Dag Hammarskjöld (1905 - 1961)
Sunday, February 11, 2024
Imagination Itself
to tears of joy is in the eyes
of others only a green thing
that stands in the way. Some see
nature all ridicule and deformity...
and some scarce see nature at all. But
to the eyes of the man of imagination,
nature is imagination itself."
- William Blake (1757 - 1827)
Friday, February 09, 2024
Light is a Thick Yellow Vitamin
Friday, December 08, 2023
Disorder to Order
- Fritjof Capra (1939 - )
Patterns of Connection
Sunday, December 03, 2023
Morning Fog
aspects of the same thing.
The same no-thing. They
are externalization of inner
space and inner silence,
which is stillness: the
the infinitely creative womb
of all existence."
- Eckhart Tolle (1948 - )
Sunday, November 12, 2023
The Color Nearest the Light
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
Theory of Colours
Wednesday, November 08, 2023
The Total Perspective Vortex
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Monday, November 06, 2023
Visual Echoes
make your heartbeat match
the beat of the universe, to
match your nature with Nature."
- Joseph Campbell (1904 - 1987)
Saturday, November 04, 2023
Mysterious and Unexplorable
Every leaf in the forest -
lays down its life in its season
as beautifully as it was taken up.
Friday, November 03, 2023
Photographing Reality
that is photographed because it
seems beautiful to us and the reality
that seems beautiful because it
has been photographed is very narrow.
Saturday, October 28, 2023
Geometry of Color
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951)
Remarks on Color
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
Serene Illumination
- John Daido Loori (1931 - 2009)
The Art of Just Sitting
Friday, March 03, 2023
I Am
- Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Translation by Stephen Mitchell (The Enlightened Heart)
Thursday, February 23, 2023
Tree Talk
Walkers who visit one of the ancient deciduous preserves in the forest I manage always report that their heart feels lighter and they feel right at home. If they walk instead through coniferous forests, which in Central Europe are mostly planted and are, therefore, more fragile, artificial places, they don't experience such feelings. Possibly it's because in ancient beech forests, fewer "alarm calls" go out, and therefore, most messages exchanged between trees are contented ones, and these messages reach our brains as well, via our noses. I am convinced that we intuitively register the forest's health."
- Peter Wohlleben (1964 - )
The Hidden Life of Trees
Tuesday, January 10, 2023
The World is a Weave
'If you say so.'
'Everything, stone, trees, beasts, the sky, the waters, all are a weave of fabric,' he said patiently. 'But when you think, it is different. Your thinking snarls the fabric, knots it. If you were a magician, you could use the knot of your mind to pull on other threads. That is magic, and now you see how every simple it is. I wonder everyone does not become an enchanter."
- Adrian Tchaikovsky (1972 - )
Friday, October 21, 2022
Harmony of Autumnal Colors
is immediately excited,
and it is its nature,
spontaneously and of necessity,
at once to produce another,
which with the original colour
comprehends the whole chromatic scale.
A single color excites,
by a specific sensation,
the tendency to universality.
In this resides the fundamental
law of all harmony of colors.
...
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
Autumnal Tints
light in the atmosphere in the autumn,
as if the earth absorbed none,
and out of this profusion of
dazzling light came the
autumnal tints."
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Friday, October 14, 2022
Non-Action
Overcomes the hardest substances.
That which offers no resistance
Can enter where there is no space.
Few in the world can comprehend
The teaching without words, or
Understand the value of non-action."
- Lao Tzu (6th century – 4th century BCE)
Tao Te Ching, Chapter 43
Sunday, October 02, 2022
One Side of a Mirror
"There are two worlds. The world you understand and the world you don’t. These worlds exist side by side, sometimes only centimeters apart, and the great majority of people spend their entire lives in one without being aware of the other. It’s like living in one side of a mirror: you think there is nothing on the other side until one day a switch is thrown and suddenly the mirror is transparent. You see the other side."