April 2012
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When I Am Among Trees
When I am among the trees, especially the willows and the honey locust, equally the beech, the oaks and the pines, they give off such hints of gladness, I would almost say that they save me, and daily. I am so distant from the hope of myself, in which I have goodness, and discernment, and never hurry through the world but walk slowly, and bow often. Around me the trees...
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This is the neatest!
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2012/04/flying-object-propels-itself-by-flipping-inside-out.html?cmpid=NLC|NSNS|2012-2304-GLOBAL|flyingobjects&utm_medium=NLC&utm_source=NSNS&utm_content=flyingobjects
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Ever bike? Now that’s something that makes life worth living!…Oh, to just grip...
– Jack London, The Call of the Wild (completely free on Amazon)
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I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in
singing, especially when...
– Mary Oliver, from “Evidence (Part I)”, rediscovered with thanks to journalofanobody (via growing-orbits)
So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would...
– Sylvia Plath (via misswallflower)
It is necessary to repeat the truth over and over again, because the falsehoods...
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (via ninefoldgoddess)
Imagine me; I shall not exist if you do not imagine me; try to discern the doe...
– Vladimir Nabokov (via misswallflower)
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Inside the Apple
You visit me inside the apple. Together we can hear the knife paring around and around us, carefully so the peel won’t tear. You speak to me. I trust your voice because it has lumps of hard pain in it the way real honey has lumps of wax from the honeycomb. I touch your lips with my fingers: that too is a prophetic gesture. And your lips are red, the way a burnt field is black. It’s all true. You...
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I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the...
– Haruki Murakami
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The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for...
– Neil DeGrasse Tyson (via nirvikalpa)
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The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If...
– Philip K. Dick (via joannastarks)
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Alfred Lord Tennyson, "Flower in the Crannied...
Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower—but if I could understand What you are, root and all, all in all, I should know what God and man is.
(source; submitted by hispaintedwings)