A quote from Beauty
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A quote from Beauty
Read this powerful quote today and thought I’d share:
“Always in big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into. You are... See more
“Always in big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into. You are... See more
Because when you curate, you notice.
You pay attention.
You search, you question, you explore.
You read books differently.
You listen differently in conversations.
You live more curiously.
You pay attention to what you pay attention to.
You uncover connections you couldn’t see before.
You become a scientist, not of the natural world but of whatever world... See more
You pay attention.
You search, you question, you explore.
You read books differently.
You listen differently in conversations.
You live more curiously.
You pay attention to what you pay attention to.
You uncover connections you couldn’t see before.
You become a scientist, not of the natural world but of whatever world... See more
Proust: “The journey of discovery begins not with new vistas but with having new eyes with which to behold them.”
The context opens a spectator’s mind to discover the complexity behind what she is seeing. In the end, the “thing-in-itself” is rarely what is most significant. Rather, it’s the connections and the in-betweens that make it all tangible.
Ida Josefiina • What We See and What We Know
The way we look at things has a huge influence on what becomes visible for us.