SaturdayDec 21, 2024
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All walking is discovery. On foot we take the time to see things whole.
The winter wind is like a cold surf beating through the bare treetops and sweeping through the valleys. It roars in the night, an elemental voice; it whistles at the house [and TD] corner and it rattles the shutter and the pane.
There are two seasonal diversions that can ease the bite of any winter. One is the January thaw. The other is the seed catalogues.
If there were wild strawberries in Eden, and there must have been, Adam was a fool as well as a sinner to taste any other fruit.
He who travels west travels not only with the sun but with history.
You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.
Listen to it, and you are hearing the mighty currents of the air rushing down the latitudes of the earth, currents from the Mackenzie and the Athabasca and the Saskatchewan, and from the prairies and the white Tundra. It is a homeless wind, forever on the move.
About time, and changing his clock on October 28, 1962, he wrote: 'Time has its own dimensions, and neither the sun nor the clock can encompass them all. All we can do with the astronomical absolutes of time is note them, divide them as we please, and liv
You fight dandelions all weekend, and late Monday afternoon there they are, pert as all get out, in full and gorgeous bloom, pretty as can be, thriving as only dandelions can in the face of adversity.
To see a hillside white with dogwood bloom is to know a particular ecstasy of beauty, but to walk the gray Winter woods and find the buds which will resurrect that beauty in another May is to partake of continuity.
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