A Foggy Day
“Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts”.
Summer Sky after Rain
“L’arte è un appello al quale troppi rispondono senza essere stati chiamati”.
Leo Longanesi
Another Tree
“I see everywhere in nature, for example in trees, capacity for expression and, as it were, a soul”.
Vincent Van Gogh
Lungo il fiume
“Pretese delle parole; pretendono di regolare i conti con quello che succede là fuori, di descriverlo e definirlo. Ma là fuori tutto si svolge non in questo o in quel modo, c’entra poco con ciò che dicono le parole. Il fiume qui sfocia in una distesa senza limiti, i colori si mescolano da tutte le parti: come descrivere?”
Some Seconds of Sea
“I have a feeling of complete balance. The sea, the house, the loneliness, the light. Everything is clearer. Much more precise. I have the feeling that I am living on a limit, and I’m crossing that limit sometimes”.
Albero Padano
“The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes”.
Summer Shadows
“There is an aesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence”.
Lunch Break
“There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less”.
Walk of Life
“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path”.
Into the Forest
“The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest”.
Rocky Coast
“You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters”.
Snowy Tree
“Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life”.
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