Tuesday, December 18, 2012

To conceive of any natural object with a total apprehension, we must for the thousandth time approach it as something totally strange.


"To conceive of any natural object with a total apprehension I must for the thousandth time approach it as something totally strange . . . You must be aware that no thing is what you have taken it to be."

Henry David Thoreau

Photo: Aspen bark detail, with the Lumpy Ridge in the background; Rocky Mountain National Park, CO; December 7, 2012.  We could benefit from taking the same approach to people and events that are challenging for us.




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