What one can imagine, two can create.
From A World Worth Saving, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
Switch spent the morning trying to get a hickory nut up onto the fence rail, and I spent the morning watching him fail at it with great enthusiasm. The nut kept rolling back down. For years I held that the making of a thing was a solitary business, that the picture in the head was the whole of it and the hands only transcribed. Then he braced the nut with his chin and I got a claw under the far side, and up it went, and neither of us had pictured that. What one can imagine, two can create; I have no idea which of us imagined the chin. The nut is still on the rail. Nobody has eaten it.
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.
Have it on something
More like it
- What fool named the wonders of the world when every meadow and wood is filled with magic?
- A mountain is an old giant happy to share its perspective with anyone who will rest a while on its shoulder.
- What is less cluttered than the night sky, a star here, a planet there, a sliver of moon, and nothing else but all the space in the universe?
- Spring dissolves life's cares in the amber glow of possibility.
- Don’t curse the clouds, unless you would rather live in a world without rain.
- Whether from cloud, cliff, or crest of wave, water only has to fall to enchant us.