Tuesday, October 14, 2008

taking Nature to heart and loving it fr what it is

Nature!

We are surrounded and enveloped by her – incapable of stepping outside of her and incapable of penetrating deeper into her.
Neither asked nor warned we are received in the cycle of her dance and carried along until we drop, tried, out of her arms.
She creates ever new shapes, what exists has never before existed, what has passed away will not return. Everything is new and yet always the same.
We live in her midst and are foreign to her. She constantly speaks to us , but never reveals her secret to us, we constantly affect her, but have no power over her.
--Goethe 1783

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