“The artistic experience, at its highest, was actually a natural analogue of mystical experience. It produced a kind of intuitive of perception.” KindNaturalPerceptionHighestExperienceArtisticMysticalIntuitiveMystical ExperiencesAnalogue Book:The Seven Storey Mountain Source: The Seven Storey Mountain
“Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation.” MenUseNaturalCivilizationPerceptionInventionFacultyImprovisation Author:Robert Green Ingersoll
“The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions.” WorldNaturalFieldsPerceptionSettingSettingsMy ThoughtsExplicit Book:Phenomenology of Perception Source: Phenomenology of Perception
“Natural thunder heralds the wetness of fresh water high clouds to quench the thirst of fields gone dry and parched, a messenger of blessed rain, but this was as dry as hell must be. My distraught perception refused to believe it, because of the insane suddenness with which it sounded, swelled and hit, and how casually it came to murder my child.” BelieveChildrenWaterNaturalGoneHellFieldsPerceptionRainMurderBlessedCloudsInsaneMy ChildrenDryThirstThunderMessengersQuenchFresh WaterDistraughtWetness Author:Anna Akhmatova
“In I Praise My Destroyer, Diane Ackerman demonstrates once again her love for the specific language that rises from the juncture of self and the natural world, and her skillful use of that language. Whether she turns her attention to the act of eating an apricot 'the color of shame and dawn,' or to 'the omnipotence of light,' or to grief when 'All the greens of summer have blown apart,' her linking of unique images, her energetic wit and whimsy, her compassionate investment in life, always bring new pleasures and perceptions to the reader.” WorldSelfUseLightTurnsLanguageNaturalPleasureGriefAttentionColorReaderPerceptionEatingSummerUniquePraiseShameInvestmentWitDawnCompassionateNatural WorldEnergeticSkillfulDestroyersOmnipotenceWhimsyJunctureApricots Author:Pattiann Rogers