"We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view."
Mao Tse-Tung
Sometimes all it takes is an epic river day as a reminder to keep a broader perspective...
"It’s a secondhand world we’re born into. What is novel to us is only so because we’re newborn, and what we cannot see, that has come before- what our parents have seen and been and done- are the hand-me-downs we begin to wear as swaddling clothes, even as we ourselves are naked. The flaw runs through us, implicating us in its imperfection even as it separates us, delivers us onto opposite sides of a chasm. It is both terribly beautiful and terribly sad, but it is, finally, the fault in the universe that gives birth to us all."
Katherine Min (Secondhand World)
"For the Earth itself is a blossom, she says,
on the star tree,
pale with luminous
ocean leaves."
Rolf Jacobsen
"For the Earth itself is a blossom, she says,
on the star tree,
pale with luminous
ocean leaves."
Rolf Jacobsen
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