Whether from cloud, cliff, or crest of wave, water only has to fall to enchant us.
From A World Worth Saving, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
There is a gutter above the feed store that has been broken since before I came to this county, and all morning the rain went through the break and fell six feet into a puddle. Two children stood in the wet watching it, and a man waited for them with his hands in his pockets and watched it too. I used to think the pleasure was in the scale of a thing, that you needed a canyon and a river in it. Whether from cloud, cliff, or crest of wave, water only has to fall to enchant us; the gutter was proof, and the gutter is tin. Switch came by later and said the puddle was the interesting part, being new. I have not worked out yet whether the falling or the landing is what holds them, and the children left before I could settle 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.
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- It is hard to look at the stars and worry about what people think of you.
- Seek your counsel in the night sky.
- A garden needs two forms of sunshine: the kind that comes from the sun and the kind that comes from mouths with upturned corners.
- You don't have to be a god to work miracles in a garden.