“If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go. We are talking about the body of the beloved, not real estate.” Terry Tempest Williams
I've never heard this quote before, but I really enjoy it! Thanks for sharing! What I think I love most about it is Williams isn't taking a necessarily obvious approach to viewing nature, the romantic side of it, what we see is what we love, per say. In other words, he isn't using nature in the same way as we were to use an emotion like love, hate, etc. Instead, nature for him is more of what the body of a beloved is, perfect and imperfect in it's makings, unpredictable, yet sound, consistent. I like this, a lot.
Ah, it's fitting that you chose to begin with Terry Tempest Williams :-)
ReplyDeleteI've never heard this quote before, but I really enjoy it! Thanks for sharing! What I think I love most about it is Williams isn't taking a necessarily obvious approach to viewing nature, the romantic side of it, what we see is what we love, per say. In other words, he isn't using nature in the same way as we were to use an emotion like love, hate, etc. Instead, nature for him is more of what the body of a beloved is, perfect and imperfect in it's makings, unpredictable, yet sound, consistent. I like this, a lot.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry, change the "he" and the "him" to a "she" and a "her." HA! I don't know what I was thinking!
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