Tuesday, January 24, 2006

walking and looking

'you walk for days among trees and among stones. rarely does the eye light on a thing, and then only when it has recognised that thing as the sign of another thing: a print in the sand indicates the tiger's passage; a marsh announce a vein of water; the hibiscus flower, the end of winter. all the rest is silent and interchangeable; trees and stones are only what they are'
calvino: invisible cities