Woods are grim places. Farmers shoot squirrels, crows, magpies, and hang them up on trees to warn Mother Nature to get it together or else. Much notice she takes, being in league with God. They’re a right pair, more carnage than the rest of us put together.
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I donât know [why we’re here]. People sometimes say to me, âWhy donât you admit that the humming bird, the butterfly, the Bird of Paradise are proof of the wonderful things produced by Creation?â And I always say, well, when you say that, youâve also got to think of a little boy sitting on a river bank, like here, in West Africa, thatâs got a little worm, a living organism, in his eye and boring through the eyeball and is slowly turning him blind. The Creator God that you believe in, presumably, also made that little worm. Now I personally find that difficult to accommodateâŠ
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I consider a dream like I consider a shadow,â answered Caeiro, with his usual divine, unexpected promptitude. âA shadow is real, but itâs less real than a rock. A dream is real â if it werenât, it wouldnât be a dream â but less real than a thing. Thatâs what being real is like.
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Itâs an already inside outside,The philosophers say itâs the soulBut itâs not the soul: itâs the animal or the man itselfIn its way of existing.
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Books! tis a dull and endless strife:Come, hear the woodland linnet,How sweet his music! on my life,There’s more of wisdom in it.
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A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one’s neighbor â such is my idea of happiness.
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