“I don’t want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red
Art by Vincent van Gogh.
To be a tree
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A word
A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just begins
to live that day.
– Emily Dickinson
Art by Andre Marchand.
Then …
“And then the dry earth begins to anticipate, and then I fall to my knees, and then the flowers cry out, and then the wind breaks open its silver countries of rain.”
– Mary Oliver
Art by Vincent Van Gogh.
Alone
“I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.”
– Audrey Hepburn, 1953
Stronger than knowledge
“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”
Robert Fulghum – All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Art – “Fireworks Over Castel Sant’Angelo In Rome” (1775) by Jacob Philipp Hackert
The plain fact
“The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these qualities have little to do with success as we have defined it.”
– David W. Orr – Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World
Art by Catrin Welz Stein.
I care
“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
– Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, 1847
Art – Daido Moriyama, Love Motel, Miyagi Prefecture, 1970
14 Writers Choose One Book That Gives Them Hope in a Dark Time
Fourteen writers on the one book that brings them hope in the midst of hopelessness at Lithub.com
Erling Kagge about The Story of Albert Schweitzer:
“Schweitzer’s idea in Reverence for Life: that good consists in maintaining, assisting and enhancing life, and to destroy, to harm or to hinder life is evil slowly opened a new horizon. I started to see that everybody can change the world. One small step at a time. Even a mouse can eat an elephant if it takes small enough bites. The challenge lies in the desire.”
– Erling Kagge
Norwegian explorer, appears at Hay Festival Querétaro to talk about his latest work, Walking; One Step At a Time.
View the full article at Lithub.com.
In beauty
“In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream – an airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly divine than the fantasies which hovered about the slumbering souls of the daughters of Delos.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Ligeia
Photography Art by Peter Lindberg (November 23, 1944 – September 3, 2019).
Friends
“I have friends wherever there are companies of trees, wounded but not vanquished, which huddle together with touching obstinacy to implore an inclement and pitiless sky.”
– Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way, 1913
Art by John William Inchbold.
