"Nature is very much a now-you-see-it, now-you-don't affair . . . They say of nature that it conceals with a grand non-chalance, and they say of vision that it is a deliberate gift, the revelation of a dancer who for my eyes only flings away her seven veils. For nature does reveal as well as conceal: now-you-don't-see-it, now-you-do . . . 'Nature,' said Heraclitus, 'is wont to hide herself.' . . . Nature flashes the old mighty glance - the come-hither look - drops the handkerchief, turns tail, and is gone. The nature I know is old touch-and-go."
Annie Dillard
Photo: A block of quartzite reveals just a corner of itself in the early morning sunlight; Snowy Range, WY; August 19, 2012
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