Abstract Earth

“Two excesses: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.”

“I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a sand dune. One sees nothing. One hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams…”

“In nature, action and reaction are continuous. Everything is linked to everything. Nowhere is anything separate. Everything is linked, interdependent.”

“But nothing of this kind is acquired for good. Like water, the world passes through you and for a while lends you its colours. Then it withdraws, and leaves you facing the emptiness you carry within…”

“Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.”

“If you sing of beauty, even alone in the heart of the desert, you will find a listener.”

“The river flows from century to century, and the stories of men take place on its banks. They take place to be forgotten tomorrow, so that the river never stops flowing.”

“The universe does not have to be beautiful, and yet it is beautiful.”