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...
Apr 28th
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WatchWatch
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)
Apr 18th
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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)
Apr 15th
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“So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would...”
– Sylvia Plath (via misswallflower)
Apr 15th
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Apr 14th
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“It is necessary to repeat the truth over and over again, because the falsehoods...”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (via ninefoldgoddess)
Apr 14th
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“Imagine me; I shall not exist if you do not imagine me; try to discern the doe...”
– Vladimir Nabokov (via misswallflower)
Apr 13th
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Apr 12th
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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...
Apr 12th
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“I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the...”
– Haruki Murakami
Apr 12th
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“The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for...”
– Neil DeGrasse Tyson (via nirvikalpa)
Apr 11th
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“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If...”
–  Philip K. Dick (via joannastarks)
Apr 1st
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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)
Apr 1st
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