by beatriceotto | Aug 29, 2017 | triologisms |
Thoreau is notably patient in observing nature, able to stand still for half an hour or more, to let the frogs and other creatures overcome their fear or shyness and be overcome instead by curiosity. Here, he ends up being observed in return by half a dozen...
by beatriceotto | Aug 15, 2017 | triologisms |
Surely, I could bestow such a belt on a character in a story? And those ‘brilliant-colored points or cones’, garlanding a pond, or a garden. ‘Walden, too, like an Indian maiden, wears this broad rainbow-like belt of brilliant-colored points or...
by beatriceotto | Aug 10, 2017 | a quote to note |
Yes, I know what he means. I’m becoming increasingly tolerant of weeds and have started protecting and even nurturing some. As a result, our lawn is taking on the character of a wild flower meadow, and this week I was heartened to see the first invasion of cow...
by beatriceotto | Aug 7, 2017 | metaphors |
Nature’s hoarse summer voice? Wind shuffling leaves and crickets rubbing hands together? I like the metaphor, but nevertheless can’t quite capture what it is. ‘Nature has found her hoarse summer voice again, like the lowing of a cow let out to...
by beatriceotto | Jul 27, 2017 | a quote to note |
Another of Thoreau’s amazing fungus finds, only this one comes back to haunt him. Installed in his house it reeks the place out, filling it with the heady vapours of dead rats. As for his comment on nature, I hope it makes you laugh too. See also his parading...
by beatriceotto | Jul 17, 2017 | metaphors |
A lovely comment on interconnectedness. I had fun choosing the image and hope you like its gentle irreverence. ‘All parts of nature belong to one head, as the curls of a maiden’s hair. How beautifully flow the seasons as one year, and all streams as one...
by beatriceotto | Jul 7, 2017 | metaphors |
How wonderful to portray nature beefing herself up to wrestle with winter, stripping off all superfluity such as leaves, the better to grapple with cold and frost. ‘Nature now, like an athlete, begins to strip herself in earnest for her contest with her great...
by beatriceotto | Jun 20, 2017 | triologisms |
Fermín is a character who has done time as a tramp, and perhaps because of the hunger he’s suffered, he has an insatiable appetite for chocolate. Living in Switzerland, I can testify as to the reality of its ‘impossibly blue lakes’ and...
by beatriceotto | Jun 8, 2017 | a quote to note |
The opening of this quotation had me asking how we ‘colour the country we inhabit’? I also like the following description of this great bird being bothered by small fry, or fly, as an old dog is bothered by gnats. ‘Eagles colour the country they...
