CHAPTER 9
Land and Nature
Summary
Points to remember from this chapter:
Quotes for Reflection
The best people are like water. They benefit all things, And do not compete with them. They settle in low places, One with nature, one with Tao.
— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Jing
Furcht, nämlich – das ist des Menschen Erb- und Grundgefühl; aus der Furcht erklärt sich jegliches, Erbsünde und Erbtugend. Aus der Furcht wuchs auch meine Tugend, die heist: Wissenschaft. Die Furcht nämlich vor wildem Getier – die wurde dem Menschen am längsten angezüchtet, einschliesslich das Tier, das er in sich selber birgt und fürchtet: – Zarathustra heisst es “das innere Vieh”. Solche lange alte Furcht, endlich fein geworden, geistlich, geistig – heute, dünkt mich, heisst sie: Wissenschaft.
Translation: Fear, you see – fear is a basic, inherited feeling of man; original sin and original virtue can be explained from this fear. My virtue grew also out of this fear, that is called: science. That is to say: the fear of wild animals – it was bred in man over a long period of time, including the animal that he hides within himself and of which he is afraid: – Zarathustra calls it “the inner cow”. Such a long and ancient fear, finally become subtle, sacred, intellectual – now, it seems to me, it is called: science.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Also sprach Zarathustra.
You are the forest you are all the great trees in the forest you are bird and beast playing in and out of all the trees o lord white as jasmine filling and filled b y all why don’t you show me your face?
— Speaking of Siva (Vs. 75). Ed. A.K. Ramanujan. Penguin Classics 1973.
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