I love how long this is. Getting to the bottom is worth it.
Tag Archives: Nature
A couple of reminders that I’m not creative enough
I’m told that this staircase was a bright idea:
And perhaps something only slightly more achievable by those of us who don’t design buildings:
(It’s stamps on a very persuasive person’s passport)
Stunningly beautiful
This video has been making the rounds recently but it’s certainly worth mentioning here. Stick some sigur rós on and be taken to sensory paradise for a few minutes…
The Mountain from Terje Sorgjerd on Vimeo.
God’s childlikeness
I love this quote from G.K. Chesterton:
A child kicks his legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life.
Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, “Do it again”; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony.
But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony.
It is possible that God says every morning, “Do it again” to the sun: and every evening, “Do it again” to the moon.
It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them.
It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.
The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore.
—”The Ethics of Elfland,” chapter 4 in Orthodoxy.
