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At Pains To Define Liberty, That Most Resolute Of Indefinables, Our Minds Fall Back On Spatial Image
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At pains to define liberty, that most resolute of indefinables, our minds
fall back on spatial images; on birds, sailboats, and mountains; the
untethered balloon, the blue sky, the nude figure.
-- Robert Grudin, Time and the Art of Living
Related:
Mountains come out of the sky and they stand there.
It's a sky blue sky. Satellites are out tonight.
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance...
Whatever happened to "Why is the sky blue?
Nonsense. Space is blue and birds fly through it. -- Heisenberg
Ah, my friends, from the prison, they ask unto me, "How good, how good does it feel to be free?
And I answer them most mysteriously: "Are birds free from the chains of the sky-way?...
If time is money, we are all living beyond our means.
The smiling Spring comes in rejoicing, And surly Winter grimly flies.
Now crystal clear are the falling waters, And bonnie blue are the sunny skies....