“In “The Religion of the Forest,” Tagore wrote about the influence that the forest dwellers of ancient India had on classical Indian literature. The forests are sources of water and the storehouses of a biodiversity that can teach us the lessons of democracy—of leaving space for others while drawing sustenance from the common web of life. Tagore saw unity with nature as the highest stage of human evolution.”
—Vandana Shiva: Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Forest (via ikenbot)
June 2013
20 posts
“There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.”
—Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
“There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.”
—Wendell Berry, from Given: Poems (Counterpoint, 2005)
“Mt. Fuji’s melting snow
is the ink
with which I sign
my life’s scroll,
‘Yours sincerely.’” —Kashiku, Japanese Death Poems (via winmeroundwithprose)
is the ink
with which I sign
my life’s scroll,
‘Yours sincerely.’” —Kashiku, Japanese Death Poems (via winmeroundwithprose)
