Co-existence or No Existence - Piet Hein
Maxim of the ever-wonderful Danish mathematician and poet, the late Piet Hein - author of some of my favourite poems, Grooks. (Gruks).
See below for my two favourites - The Road to Wisdom and T.T.T. - though there are many more I enjoy!
Read some more here. And here. And a bit more about him here. I also enjoy the brevity (he makes a point of bervity - clearly I am not of the same ilk but value the skill!)
– Been thinking about the world and looking after it - and remembering we never left Earth so therefore we need clean air soil water and sunlight and polluting or destroying one part of the system, in our interconnected systems, means we harm the rest too…I am less frustrated by this then I used to be - now I see nature looks after itself, nature will be fine - for instance, if water wants more space, it will take it - yet that leaves us humans with no guarentee it will look after us.
Perhaps it is time to remember that we are of earth - and begin, in even our smallest ways, to nuture and cultivate a healthier relationship with it, and each other?
Put up in a place
where it’s easy to see
the cryptic admonishment
T.T.T.
When you feel how depressingly
slowly you climb,
it’s well to remember that
Things Take Time.
The Road to Wisdom
The road to wisdom? - Well, it’s plain
and simple to express:
Err
and err
and err again
but less
and less
and less.
Special thanks to Marty (and thus thanks to Thomer) for my first Grook encounter in Cambridge, Mass. 2005!
PS If anyone wants to send me the books / knows where to find them would be muchos grateful! they are hard to find!!
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June 27th, 2007 at 3:07 am
“Sitting quietly, doing nothing.
Spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.”
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July 9th, 2007 at 12:24 am
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b/002-9419236-6644826?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=grooks