Mystery tree

Geologic time

"The rhythm of the animal kingdom is that of everyday existence. The rhythm of the vegetable kingdom is that of the year. The rhythm of the mineral kingdom is that of the ages of life calculated in millennia. As soon as we contemplate the thousands of years of existence for metals, cosmic dreams come to us."

- Gaston Bachelard, in J.B. Jackson's Discovering the Vernacular Landscape

Two wishes to be a stone

 Jim Harrison:

Homesick for a dark, for clear black space
free of objects; to feel locked as wood
within a tree, a rock deep enough
in earth never to see the surface.

John Haines:

To do nothing, to be nothing: that would be a good life. Be still, like a stone in the sun.

Wildernesses

Origin is from "Wild Deor" (wild deer) in old English, meaning land inhabited only by wild animals.

First thought is The Wilderness Act of 1964, allowing for the preservation of parcels of wild nature with lines on maps and sets of rules.

But I think also of other wildernesses. Places untrodden, unknown or challenging. Places entered only temporarily, where foreign logics prevail: wildernesses of land, mind, body, death, culture, and cosmos.

Hear My Call - The Staple Singers by zwallace