The conversion from order to chaos, from existence to extinction, serves as our means of perceiving change and distinguishing one moment from the other. Entropy is the key to this process. Absent entropy, the universe would exist in an immense, perpetual stillness, where never and forever are the same. Without entropy, time, at least for…
Tales of Gods and Demons
Places, which left a haunting or sublime impression on me.
Water is a source of infinite fascination for me. The way it can hide or reveal things with its reflective surface or its endless black depths has always been an inspiration to human imagination, and I am no exception in this regard. As an often used allegory for the passage of time, it is also…
The fractal nature of trees is a fascinating visual magnet, that is apparent in all parts of a tree, from the “veins” of a leaf, the smallest branches to the tips of its roots.
Hiraeth (n, Welsh): a homesickness for a home to which you cannot return, a home which maybe never was; the nostalgia, the yearning, the grief for the lost places of your past.
“There is no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.”~ Jorge Luis Borges ~
There are few old growth forests left in Europe, and not really any untouched wilderness at all. But sometimes on my wanderings through our forests I come upon an area that looks surprisingly wild and almost untouched, where a combination of rocks, mossy trees, undergrowth and fallen branches create an atmosphere that seems almost primeval.…
Ah! what pleasant visions haunt meAs I gaze upon the sea!All the old romantic legends,All my dreams, come back to me.~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
Trees need not walk the earthFor beauty or for bread;Beauty will come to themWhere they stand.Here among the children of the sapIs no pride of ancestry:A birch may wear no less the morningThan an oak.Here are no heirloomsSave those of loveliness,In which each treeIs kingly in its heritage of grace.Here is but beauty’s wisdomIn which…