Every sunrise and sunset shows how breathtaking is the world’s beauty and how fleeting.
From A World Worth Saving, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
Woke before light on the low branch over the feeder and watched the whole east go from gray to apricot in about four minutes. Switch slept through it. For years I thought the point of a sunrise was that it came back, that the reliability was the comfort; I used to say so to anyone who would hold still. But this morning the color was gone before I had settled on a word for it, and the sky went to its ordinary blue like a face returning to business. Every sunrise and sunset shows how breathtaking is the world's beauty and how fleeting, and I do not know whether those are two facts or one. The same thing happened at the other end of the day, over the Morrisons' fence, and I missed the best of that one too because a jay was shouting.
He reads what you tell him and writes a page of his journal back, with a few of these chosen for you. It costs nothing and asks for nothing.
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- The universe whispers its deepest secrets when the air turns thin and cold.
- There is much to be undone.
- Changing yourself is easier than changing the world and has the same effect.
- We have enough oars, if we can find enough rowers.
- Trees never worry about pecking birds or burrowing insects but shake a little when a bulldozer comes near.
- To all the questions pondered looking at the moon, one must add, "What does the moon see looking back?"