Tag: Nature

The First Notes Of Summer

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The cicadas sang louder and yet louder.
The sun did not rise, it overflowed.
— Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

Summer feels as if it’s arriving. Two warm days in a row, cicadas in full voice — the season suddenly here.

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To See, To Live

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.
~ Henry David Thoreau, Walden

But if you knew you might not be able to see it again tomorrow, everything would suddenly become special and precious, wouldn’t it?
~ Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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Sitting Under A Tree

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It is very important to go out alone, to sit under a tree, not with a book, not with a companion, but by yourself and observe the falling of a leaf, hear the lapping of water, the fisherman’s song, watch the flight of a bird, and of your own thoughts as they chase each other across the space of your mind. If you are able to be alone and watch these things, then you will discover extraordinary riches which no government can tax, no human agency can corrupt, and which can never be destroyed.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

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