“Quote Unquote”
August 2, 2019 § 2 Comments
“The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.” — Galileo Galilei
“Go outside. Don’t tell anyone and don’t bring your phone. Start walking and keep walking until you no longer know the road like the palm of your hand, because we walk the same roads day in and day out, to the bus and back home, and we cease to see. We walk in our sleep and teach our muscles to work without thinking and I dare you to walk where you have not yet walked and I dare you to notice. Don’t try to get anything out of it because you won’t. Don’t try to make use of it because you can’t. And that’s the point.” — Charlotte Eriksson
“Nature poets can’t walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany.” — Christian Wiman
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The Eriksson quote reminds me of Walker Percy’s concept of zone crossing on which he elaborated in “The Moviegoer.”
I love the Galileo quote. Thanks.