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Whidbey
Walks
Mailing address:
PO Box 492
Clinton, WA 98236
Shop located at: 2326 Newman Road at Highway 525,
Freeland, WA
Phone:
360-321-4950
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| Wednesday February
7 2007 05:
18 PM |
I sometimes think nature writers are some of our best philosophers...right up there with gardeners! I have recently discovered a delightful book by Paul Krafel: "Seeing Nature, Deliberate encounters with the visible world." Here is a quote:
"One evening I saw the Earth turning. Before that night, I had always seen the Sun setting toward a stationary horizon. But when I saw the sun, instead, as stationary, then I saw my horizon rising toward the Sun. In the first view, the Sun moves. In the second view, my world moves. My eyes see the same thing -- the gap between Sun and horizon closing. Yet what is moving? My mind must make an assumption. Shifting that assumption changes the world I see." Paul Krafel
Which is the wonderful thing about making time in our life to view nature -- we can change the world we see.
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