Once more I am the silent one who came out of the distance wrapped in cold rain and bells: I owe to earth's pure death the will to sprout.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a recognition of the cycle of life and death, suggesting that through death, new life is inspired.
Pablo Neruda's quote reflects on the profound connection between life and death. It suggests that the silence and stillness associated with death, represented by 'cold rain and bells,' provides a necessary contrast to life, enabling the will to grow and thrive. This interplay between death and rebirth highlights nature's cyclical essence, emphasizing how endings can lead to new beginnings, much like how a seed must die to give way for a plant to sprout.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech at a memorial service to celebrate the cycle of life.
Perhaps this war will pass like the others which divided us leaving us dead, killing us along with the killers but the shame of this time puts its burning fingers to our faces. Who will erase the ruthlessness hidden in innocent blood?
I want to see the thirst inside the syllables I want to touch the fire in the sound: I want to feel the darkness of the cry. I want words as rough as virgin rocks.β - Verb.
Only do not forget, if I wake up crying it's only because in my dream I'm a lost child hunting through the leaves of the night for your hands.
And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth's only furrow.
I learned about life from life itself, love I learned in a single kiss and could teach no one anything except that I have lived with something in common among men.
I have named you queen. There are taller than you, taller. There are purer than you, purer. There are lovelier than you, lovelier. But you are the queen.
On the day-long follows that I used to do with mothers and their offspring - these chimp families that I knew so well - there was hardly a day when I didn't learn something new about them.
Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow
No one person has to do it all but if each one of us follow our heart and our own inclinations we will find the small things that we can do to create a sustainable future and a healthy environment.
Love life first, then march through the gates of each season; go inside nature and develop the discipline to stop destructive behavior; learn tenderness toward experience, then make decisions based on creating biological wealth that includes all people, animals, cultures, currencies, languages, and the living things as yet undiscovered; listen to the truth the land will tell you; act accordingly.
Now, more than ever, we need nature as a balancing agent.
Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.
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