Tag: quotes
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Go un-filed.
“The unphotographed moment.” Now and then, deliberately do not photograph the sensory-rich thing — the meal, the low gold light, the street at dusk with the festival somewhere behind it. Let it go un-filed. An experience you did not capture keeps a power the captured ones lose: it can come back on its own, years…
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The forrest.
Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside youAre not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,Must ask permission to know it and be known.The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,I have made this place around you.If you leave it, you may come back again, saying Here.No two…
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Ice-cream wild.
“Let the case for the destruction of the earth rest. We are smothered with facts. They are both depressing and endless. What is unsettling is that we are all so apathetic.The social reasons for our apathy are numerous: religious traditions such as Christianity and Buddhism that glorify acceptance and condemn emotion (particularly anger) and judgment;…
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Enchantment.
Enchantment is small wonder magnified through meaning, fascination caught in the web of fable and memory. It relies on small doses of awe, almost homeopathic: those quiet traces of fascination that are found only when we look for them. It is the sense that we are joined together in one continuous thread of existence with…
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Writ large.
Latin prefix infra: below, within, under.Structure: to construct; the aggregate of elements of an entity in their relationships to each other. Good (and necessary) environmental stewardship is not just a policy choice; it is an ethical and moral imperative. Ethical behavior means more than simply reducing waste—it means dismantling the systems that create it. It…
