“In our everyday garden grow the rosemary, juniper, ferns and plane trees, perfectly tangible and visible. For these plants that have an illusory relationship with us, which in no way alters their existentiality, we are merely an event, an accident, and our presence, which seems so solid, laden with gravity, is to them no more than a momentary void in motion through the air. Reality is a quality that belongs to them, and we can exercise no rights over it.” WayRealitySeemsSpiritualityGrowsQualityRightsAirTreeEventsExerciseGardenPlantEverydayAccidentsPlanesVisibleOver ItVoidGravityGardeningTangibleMomentaryIllusoryFernsRosemary Book:Parallel botany Source: Parallel botany
“From time to time, from the endless flow of our mental imagery, there emerges unexpectedly something that, vague though it may be, seems to carry the promise of a form, a meaning, and, more important, an irresistible poetic charge.” MayImportantSeemsFormPromiseFlowEndlessPoeticVagueImageryIrresistibleMental Imagery Author:Leo Lionni