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“Nature knows no calendar, the seasons move in a circle.”

Knows Moving Seasons Circles Calendars

Author:Flora Thompson

“Thinking about time is to acknowledge two contradictory certainties: that our outward lives are governed by the seasons and the clock; that our inward lives are governed by something much less regular-an imaginative impulse cutting through the dictates of daily time, and leaving us free to ignore the boundaries of here and now and pass like lightning along the coil of pure time, that is, the circle of the universe and whatever it does or does not contain.”

Thinking Doe Two Universe Cutting Pure Seasons Leaving Circles Boundaries Certainty Impulse Clock Acknowledge Lightning Inward Imaginative Contradictory Here And Now

Book:Sexing the Cherry

Source: Sexing the Cherry

“And the seasons they go 'round and 'round And the painted ponies go up and down We're captive on the carousel of time We can't return we can only look behind From where we came And go round and round and round In the circle game.”

Looks Time Games Behinds Return Seasons Rounds Circles Up And Down Captives Ponies Where We Came Carousels

Author:Joni Mitchell

“Tell them you came, and saw, and looked into my eyes and saw the shadow of the guard receding. Thoughts in time and out of season, the hitchinker stood by the side of the road and levelled his thumb in the calm calculus of reason. [...] Why does my mind circle around you? Why do planets wonder what it would be like to be you? All your soft wild promises were words, birds, endlessly in flight.”

Mind Doe Reason Would Be Eye Sides Wonder Saws Planets Promise Bird Shadow Seasons Calm Circles Flight Reason Why Be You Thumbs Calculus

Author:Jim Morrison

“Time has two aspects. There is the arrow, the running river, without which there is no change, no progress, or direction, or creation. And there is the circle or the cycle, without which there is chaos, meaningless succession of instants, a world without clocks or seasons or promises.”

World Two Running Time Progress Creation Promise Aspect Rivers Seasons Chaos Circles Clock Instant Cycles Meaningless Arrows Succession

Book:The Dispossessed

Source: The Dispossessed

“Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a person is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.”

Source: Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux

“Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one center of pain.”

Long Doe Moments Seems Pain Suffering Grief Records Progress Return Sorrow Seasons Rounds Circles Mood Divides Chronicles

Book:Works: Edited with an Introduction

Source: Works: Edited with an Introduction