"Man cannot afford to look at Nature directly, but only with the side of his eye. He must look through and beyond her . . . I should be the magnet in the midst of all this dust and iron filings . . . I must let my senses wander as my thoughts, my eyes see without looking. Be not preoccupied with looking. Go not to the object; let it come to you. What I need is not to look at all, but a true sauntering of the eye."
Henry David Thoreau
Photo: As I was drinking morning coffee at my campsite on Lost Lake near Crested Butte (CO), this aspen "eye" caught my attention, peering at me as though from the side from behind the surrounding trunks. October 1, 2011
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