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Cherry Blossoms

The Hammer

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Premium Member
Life...

Like Cherry Blossoms

Soft
Fleeting
Precious

In bloom briefly, impactful on all who witness it's splendor.

Then... Gone.

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amorphous_constellation

Well-Known Member
I happen to be reading Thoreau right now.. Here is one sentence describing nature from Walden, the opening of chapter 10 , which I just got to :

"Sometimes I rambled to pine groves, standing like temples, or like fleets at sea, full-rigged, with wavy boughs, and rippling with light, so soft and green and shady that the Druids would have forsaken their oaks to worship in them ; or to the cedar wood beyond Flints' Pond, where the trees, covered with hoary blue berries, spiring higher and higher, are fit to stand before Val- ; halla, and the creeping juniper covers the ground with wreaths full of fruit ; or to swamps where the usnea lichen hangs in festoons from the white-spruce trees, and toad- stools, round tables of the swamp gods, cover the ground, and more beautiful fungi adorn the stumps, like butter- flies or shells, vegetable winkles ; where the swamp-pink and dogwood grow, the red alder-berry glows like eyes of imps, the waxwork grooves and crushes the hardest woods in its folds, and the wild-holly berries make the beholder forget his home with their beauty, and he is dazzled and tempted by nameless other wild forbidden fruits, too fair for mortal taste." - Thoreau, Henry David. Walden; or, Life in the Woods . Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1854, p. 217.
 
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Regiomontanus

Ματαιοδοξία ματαιοδοξιών! Όλα είναι ματαιοδοξία.
Life is available only in the present moment.

― Thich Nhat Hanh,
 
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