Nature and You

A lot of important poets drew a lot of inspiration from nature and the seasons and the flora and other ecological-paraphernalia. 

T.S. Eliot said that April is the cruelest month while Ezra Pound talked about petals on a wet black bough. Chaucer talked about flower juices and Wordsworth accidentally climbed a mountain one time. Robert Frost was actually the Snow Miser from that animated movie about Christmas and never saw a real flower in his life until he defeated the Heat Miser.

But it's important to remember that nature means a lot of things to a lot of different people, and the truth value of those perspectives can only be judged within their respective perspectives. Which is a lot like relativism, which people don't like because it's like comparing babies to pinatas. Just because candy comes out of both of them when you beat them with sticks doesn't mean that you condone them equally.

The point I'm trying to make though is that your ability to shape your own reality is extremely powerful and you better make sure that you have flowers in that reality because you need to be able to stop and smell them. It's something that science oftentimes fails to account for in its mad pursuit for false objectivity.

As the late great E=MC-cummings once said, 'everybody lives in a pretty how town, eat a can of prune-whip, pants turn brown."

That's strictly conjecture. But we really should reject dualism in our ideas about ourselves and reality. Because we can never get past appearances of how things seem to be and our bodies are undeniably linked to our thoughts and reactions and as it turns out, we all tend to accept that there is something instead of nothing in front of us and that's probably a good enough reason to paint a dinky picture of some flowers.

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