Nós e a Natureza

Frits Thaulow, The Priest (in WikiPaintings).

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William Merritt Chase, Along the Path at Shinnecock (c. 1896, in The Athenaeum).

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Frederick Childe Hassam, Alkali, Rabbit Brush and Grease Wood Squaw Cap, Oregon Trail (1908,  in The Athenaeum).

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«A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty».

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Albert Einstein.

Paisagens de Inverno

Fritz Thaulow, Winter on the Isle of Stord - Jos Albert, Winter in Brabant - Peder Mørk Monsted, Ponte-Campovasto (1914).

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«Como é possível não reconhecer a beleza de um dia de Inverno?, a essência poética de uma pedra recoberta por musgo, o onirismo do nevoeiro, a omnipotência da cor cinzenta, a melodia do vento, o divino acorde da chuva tocando a terra, o odor inebriante do húmus, a visão transcendente de um manto de neve, a generosa revelação de uma árvore desnuda e de braços erguidos para o infinito...»

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Cátia Mourão, Facebook (14 de Janeiro de 2011).

Ainda do Outono que agora termina...

Vasili Dimitrievich Polenov, Woman walking on a forest trail -Fritz Thaulow, Autumn.

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The one red leaf, the last of its clan,
That dances as often as dance it can,
Hanging so light, and hanging so high,
On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge.