“Like all real treasures of the mind, perception can be split into infinitely small fractions without losing its quality. The weeds in a city lot convey the same lesson as the redwoods; the farmer may see in his cow-pasture what may not be vouchsafed to the scientist adventuring in the South Seas.” MindMayRealCitiesQualitySeaLessonsPerceptionLosingScientistSouthTreasureWeedFarmersCowsSplitsFractionsPasturesRedwoodsAdventuring Book:A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There Source: A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There
“I have gained very great inspiration from the Cornish land- and seascape, the horizontal line of the sea and the quality of light and colour which reminds me of the Mediterranean light and colour which so excites one's sense of form; and first and last there is the human figure which in the country becomes a free and moving part of a greater whole. This relationship between figure and landscape is vitally important to me. I cannot feel it in a city.” FeelsFirstsHumansImportantCountryWholeLightInspirationLastsMovingFormLinesCitiesQualityGreaterSeaLandFiguresLandscapeColourHorizontalFirsts And LastsMoving PartsHorizontal Lines Author:Barbara Hepworth
“The sporting qualities of a fish are dependent neither on its size nor its weight, but on the effort of concentration, the skill and mastery the fish demands from the fisherman” EffortQualitySeaSkillsDemandRiversWeightSizeFishesBoatDependentLakesFishingConcentrationMasteryFisherman Author:Charles Ritz
“The sea has this contradictory quality, that the more you see of it, the more it overwhelms the eye and disappears in its own brightness. Like a flame, whose meaning is light but whose centre is dark, it demands to be undefined.” LightEyeDarkQualitySeaDemandDisappearFlamesCentreContradictoryBrightnessUndefined Author:Alice Oswald
“Nature … is, as it were, a continual circulation. Water is rais'd in Vapour into the Air by one Quality and precipitated down in drops by another, the Rivers run into the Sea, and the Sea again supplies them.” RunningWaterQualityAirSeaRiversRaisedSuppliesCirculationVaporVapour Author:Robert Hooke
“At the happy ending of the Tempest, Prospero brings the kind back togeter with his son, and finds Miranda's true love and punishes the bad duke and frees Ariel and becomes a duke himself again. Everyone - except Caliban - is happy, and everyone is forgiven, and everyone is fine, and they all sail away on calm seas. Happy endings. That's how it is in Shakespeare. But Shakespeare was wrong. Sometimes there isn't a Prospero to make everything fine again. And sometimes the quality of mercy is strained.” KindSometimesQualitySeaSonFineMercyCalmSailForgivenHappy EndingsTempestDukesArielMirandaCalibanCalm SeasProspero Author:Gary D.
“The great river follows its own course before joining the vast sea. Likewise, the soul follows equally varied routes and passes through different stages, receiving here and there tributaries of knowledge, strengthening its personality and perfecting its qualities before reaching the Ocean of Eternal Wisdom.” DifferentSoulCoursesQualitySeaStagePersonalityOceanEternalRiversReachingReceivingRoutesHere And ThereJoiningStrengthening Author:Andre Luiz Moreira