The Tree | 
Such random personal creativity is offensive to all machines.
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But the danger, in both art and nature, is that all emphasis is placed on the created, not the creation.
But the danger, in both art and nature, is that all emphasis is placed on the created, not the creation.
1. A tree in our neighborhood park
2. Not right now
3. Food - a loaf of bread
4. Spinach lasagna
5. Black Forest cake
#humpdaypost @MinDea
pickFowles confounded my expectations: of the 101 pages in my edition, perhaps 12 are given over to a description of woodland and trees, and those twelve provide him with more material to ponder the relationship between people, as individuals and as societies, and nature. Starting with a meditation on the differences between his own and his father's views of nature, Fowles takes in art, science, religion, and the essential ineffability of existence.
I sit in the namelessness, the green phosphorus of the tree, surrounded by impenetrable misappellations.
[Of Wistmans Wood, Dartmoor]
Perhaps nowhere is our human mania for possessing, our delusion that the owned cannot have a soul of its own, more harmful to us. This disanimation justified all the horrors of the African slave trade. If the black man is so stupid that he can be enslaved, he cannot have the soul of a white man, he must be a mere animal.
We lack trust in the present, this moment, this actual seeing, because our culture tells us to trust only the reported back, the publicly framed, the edited, the thing set in the clearly artistic or the clearly scientific angle of perspective.
Ordinary experience, from waking second to second, is in fact highly synthetic (in the sense of combinative or constructive), and made of a complexity of strands, past memories and present perceptions, times and places, private and public history, hopelessly beyond science's powers to analyse. It is quintessentially 'wild' ... unphilosophical, irrational uncontrollable, incalculable.
#reality #experience
Only fools think our attitude to our fellow men is a thing distinct from our attitude to 'lesser' life.
Man is a highly acquisitive creature, brainwashed by most modern societies into believing that the act of acquisition is more enjoyable than the fact of having acquired, that getting beats having got.
Evolution had turned man into a sharply isolating creature, seeing the world not only anthropocentrically but singly, mirroring the way we like to think of our private selves.
A short book but it looks interesting, and this is a really nice edition - great illustrations. 🌳🌲🌳
#booksaboutnature My husband is the chairman of the shade tree commission for our township. I am always looking for books about trees that might be of interest. These are two that I purchased.
