Tuesday, 18 December 2012

Eye to I


"Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf and take an insect view of its plain."

Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)

Sunday, 16 December 2012

Take a good book at this


"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries."

René Descartes, philosopher and mathematician (1596-1650)

Friday, 14 December 2012

Maurice Herzog just died

AFP.com


He paid for the glory [of climbing the Annapurna] in the form of several fingers and toes that had to be amputated because of frostbite.
"You can see what I have less of, but I feel what I have more of and it is incomparably greater," he later observed.

Monday, 10 December 2012

Dwritving


"Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights, but you make the whole trip that way."

E.L. Doctorow, writer (b. 1931)

This is no longer home

On the train back to the old place unsure if any memory is left there Surely there must be an old cigarette burn hissing embers fusing ...