Category: landscape

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“Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul” Kandinsky via Popova.

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Qué vanidad imaginar
que puedo darte todo, el amor y la dicha,
itinerarios, música, juguetes.

What vanity to imagine
I can give you everything, love and bliss,
Itineraries, music, toys.

Julio Cortázar, Bolero.

“To truly see my country by looking at it in the mirror of another country.” Sarr

To truly see A by looking at it in the mirror of another A (objectively, B).

Human :: plants

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“allusions to the infinite”

“remained embedded in the symbolic content of the place”

“We must be aware of the dangers which lie in our most generous wishes”

“a barely perceptible irregularity glimpsed intermittently through squinted eyes”

“beautiful in its venality and in its devotion to immediate gratification”

“crimes are universally understood to be news to the extent that they offer, however erroneously, a story, a lesson, a high concept”

Didion

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I know the practical, it will keep you breathing; awe, on the other hand, is what makes you (me) want to keep living. (JK)

A garden is the place to tend to the subtler, life-sustaining regiment of our lives. A place to cultivate the imaginary, hope, and expectations held in budding plants, intimated by the unfurling of new flower, the subtler and supporting reasons to toil and labor, should be the right of every citizen.
Thought, sunshine, and flowers: time to think and imagine, to take in the sun and breathe unhurriedly, and to tend to plants within their temporality. (RS)

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Beauty will come to them  

Where they stand.

[…]

Trees need not walk the earth 

For beauty or for bread;  

Beauty will come to them  

In the rainbow—  

The sunlight—  

And the lilac-haunted rain

David Rosenthal

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… habit of indirection; … to delight in a margin; … not something to do, but something to be experienced, and something to go through (ZS)

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“The belief that goodness is built on a constructed absence, not-doing.”
“Grace, that dictionary. A place where every thing was attached to a meaning.”
“Fear made me work hard, get better. It’s a dirty fuel, but it works.”
“… read an Odyssey in a gasp, a Shahnehmeh in a sigh”
“I did know real, deep joy. […] my lifetime’s allotment”

–Kaveh Akbar