Extra pleasure

Extra pleasure

beauty, discovery, imagination

There are those who suggest that understanding too much of the workings of things diminishes our sense of wonder.  Like many, I believe the opposite, the more we understand, the more pleasure we can derive from this complex thing called the universe.   Thus to a man...
Unwritten knowledge

Unwritten knowledge

authenticity

Our relationship with landscape fascinates me, particularly when it manifests in people who have a deep knowledge and love of a particular place, whether from an agricultural, historical, geological or other angle. This quotation is from a love letter to a landscape...
The nature of wonder

The nature of wonder

discovery, enchantment

This caught my eye, a surprising definition of wonder, presented as ‘broken knowledge’. I wondered if that meant ‘incomplete’ knowledge, the awe that comes of observing without understanding, but the scientist Richard Dawkins has pointed out...

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