"The book of nature is like a page written over or printed upon with different-sized
characters and in many different languages, interlined and crosslined, and with a
great variety of marginal notes and references. There is coarse print and fine print; there are abscure signs and hieroglyphics. We all read the large type more or less appreciatively, but only the students and lovers of nature read the fine lines and the footnotes. It is a book which he reads best who goes most slowly or even tarries long by the way."
From: The Art of Seeing Things
by: John Burroughs
characters and in many different languages, interlined and crosslined, and with a
great variety of marginal notes and references. There is coarse print and fine print; there are abscure signs and hieroglyphics. We all read the large type more or less appreciatively, but only the students and lovers of nature read the fine lines and the footnotes. It is a book which he reads best who goes most slowly or even tarries long by the way."
From: The Art of Seeing Things
by: John Burroughs
2 comments:
i love this quote! i'm glad that you get to be an observer of nature more often than some of us. how reassuring it is to have an observant soul among us.
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I'm jealous of your day job Cindy! How perfect to get fit and burn 1200 calories plus while enjoying nature. Beautiful photos!
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