Nature
16/04/2023
What is man in nature?
What is man in nature? A nothingness with regard to infinity, a whole with regard to nothingness, a medium between nothing and everything. Pensées, 72, BLAISE PASCAL (Clermont, today Clermont-Ferrand, 1623-Paris 1662)
Spider web and dew pearls
The dewdrops fall in the early morning and pearl on the canvas sewn under the secret of the stars where, in the glow of the midnight sun, the naïve creatures succumb to their frenetic flight. Page of poetry by Guillaume Prevel: The Spider's Web (extract)
Mushrooms are like sins: to eat them, you have to take risks. *
* The title quote is from Hervé Bazin, French writer, novelist, 1911-1996 -------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------ The loves are like mushrooms. You don't know if they are the right or wrong species until it is too late. Tristan Bernard, French novelist and playwright, 1866-1947
Pink sandstone from Alsace
The Altschlossfelsen, whose German-sounding name means "Rock of the Old Castle", forms a rocky bar of nearly 1,500 m nicknamed the Little Colorado of the Vosges. We never tire of the glowing shades of the rock, a true little miracle of nature.
Rocky eminence
O lake! dumb rocks! caves! dark forest! You whom time saves or which it can rejuvenate, Keep from this night, keep, beautiful nature, At least the memory! ALPHONSE DE PRÂT DE LAMARTINE, 1790-1869, French poet, novelist, playwright, and politician
