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The World Around Us
Jon Mead • 9 cards
Mes promenades furent presque quotidiennes au sommet des collines Quantock et sur ses crêtes escarpées. Muni de mon crayon et de mon carnet, j’étudiais, comme disent les artistes, et je façonnais souvent mes pensées en vers avec les objets et les images offerts à mes sens5. »
tom Hodgkinson • L'art d'être oisif: ... dans un monde de dingue (LIENS QUI LIBER) (French Edition)
“Have you ever tried to translate Mount Fuji?” “Translate…?” “It’s fun. Whenever you translate nature it turns into something human. ‘Noble,’ say, or ‘great,’ or ‘heroic.’ ” Sanshirō saw what he meant by “translate.” “It always gives you a word having to do with character. Nature can’t influence the character of someone who can’t translate nature i
... See moreNatsume Soseki • Sanshiro (Penguin Classics)
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Ralph Waldo Emerson • Nature
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Alan Watts • In My Own Way: An Autobiography
She wastes it with the most intense pleasure. The work isn’t glamorous. It consists of taping numbered plastic bags over the ends of branches, then collecting them at measured intervals. She does this over and over, dumbly and mutely, hour by hour, while the world around her rages with assassination, race riot, and jungle warfare. She works all day
... See moreRichard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
My soul turns into a tree, And an animal, and a cloud bank. Then changed and odd it comes home And asks me questions. What should I reply? —Hermann Hesse, “Sometimes”
Bernie Krause • Wild Soundscapes: Discovering the Voice of the Natural World, Revised Edition
That’s the trouble with people, their root problem. Life runs alongside them, unseen. Right here, right next. Creating the soil. Cycling water. Trading in nutrients. Making weather. Building atmosphere. Feeding and curing and sheltering more kinds of creatures than people know how to count.