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Yosa BusonRead
In pale moonlight / the wisteria's scent / comes from far away.
Interpretation
The quote evokes a sense of tranquility and the beauty of distant experiences through nature.
Yosa Buson's quote speaks to the serene and evocative power of nature, illustrating how the delicate scent of wisteria carried by the pale moonlight creates a vivid sensory experience. It highlights the connection between the natural world and our emotional landscape, suggesting that beauty can transcend distance, reaching us in moments of quiet reflection.
In practice
This quote could be used in a poetry reading to evoke the beauty of nature.
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their hanging-gardens, villas, garden-houses, islands, parks, and preserves.
The wooing of the Earth thus implies much more than converting the wilderness into humanized environments. It means also preserving natural environments in which to experience mysteries transcending daily life and from which to recapture, in a Proustian kind of remembrance, the awareness of the cosmic forces that have shaped humankind.
What a friend we have in a tree, the tree is the symbol of hope, self improvement and what people can do for themselves.
Beetles and butterflies are sometimes restricted to small areas. Each mountain in a range, and even the different zones of a mountain, may have its own peculiar species. But the house-fly seems to be everywhere. I wonder if any island in mid-ocean is flyless.
Do we have to wait until a disaster overwhelms us before we make the radical changes necessary to protect our world for future generations? That is the vital challenge of sustainable development. If we act now there is much that can be saved which will otherwise disappear forever
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