|
1c41f65
|
The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the middle path as a walk with wisdom where conversations of complexity can be found, that the middle path is the path of movement. . . . In the right and left worlds, the stories are largely set. . . . We become missionaries for a position . . . practitioners of the missionary position. Variety is lost. Diversity is lost. Creativity is lost in our inability to make love with the world.
|
|
middle
compromise
diversity
conversation
left
right
creativity
|
Terry Tempest Williams |
|
486e39b
|
"The infinitesimal seedlings became a forest of trees that grew courteously, correcting the distances between themselves as they shaped themselves to the promptings of available light and moisture, tempering the climate and the temperaments of the Scots, as the driest land became moist and the wettest land became dry, seedlings finding a mean between extremes, and the trees constructing a moderate zone for themselves even into what I would have called tundra, until I understood the fact that Aristotle taught, while walking in a botanic garden, that the middle is fittest to discern the extremes. ("Interim")"
|
|
nature
middle
extremes
scotland
trees
|
William S. Wilson |
|
5041432
|
Fussing over food was important. It gave a shape to the day: breakfast, lunch, dinner; beginning, middle, end.
|
|
breakfast
middle
daily-life
dinner
lunch
end
cooking
food
|
Robert Hellenga |