There are hidden contradictions in the minds of people who "love Nature" while deploring the "artificialities" with which "Man has spoiled 'Nature.'" The obvious contradiction lies in their choice of words, which imply that Man and his artifacts are not part of "Nature" -- but beavers and their dams are... - robert heinlein
yet, there are those men and women who see nature as an inspiration and as a result of that inspiration seem to not only distill nature down to its very essence, but reconfigure it and refine it further and put that essence back into the world in a new way that actually increases the connection between those men who see the art and the nature that inspired it.
in these cases, where nature is the inspiration for the art, and the source, do not the men who distill it and refine it and interpret it, make the nature more accessible to those who did not have it within themselves to understand the nature of nature without an interpreter?
robinson jeffers
The world has many seas, Mediterranean, Atlantic, but
here is the shore of the one ocean.
And here the heavy future hangs like a cloud; the
enormous scene; the enormous games preparing
Weigh on the water and strain the rock; the stage is
here, the play is conceived; the players are
not found.
ansel adams
olafur eliasson - the weather project
http://www.btinternet.com/~axel.stein/a ... London.htm
