I am reading a short excerpt of
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard for one of my classes, and there are some wonderful quotes about exploring the landscape and nature.
- "Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf. We must somehow take a wider view, look at the whole landscape, really see it, and describe what's going on here."
- "Some unwonted, taught pride diverts us from our original intent, which is to explore the neighborhood, view the landscape, to discover at least where it is that we have been so startlingly set down, if we can't learn why."
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| The enchanted Michigan woods during early summer |
Bonnie, I like the two quotes. In the second quote, it may be better not to know the 'why.' What if it's something simple like, 'because,' then where would our motivation come from? I like to think we can create the why for ourselves, customized to something that interests and pushs us forward.
ReplyDeleteGood point, and I agree that we each create our own 'why'. See the quote by Vonnegut on the side bar of this page, which states that "there is no why". There are definitely different points of view on this.
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