I don't think of nature as "harsh"-- the lilacs are love to me, and always have been; it is human society and the human world that is harsh and abrasive. I'll share my most intimate, tentative dreams with the cat or a tree, but never with another person. (Well, not unless I'm feeling more masochistic than usual.) Nature has always been gentler on my inner life, my emotions and dreams, than human beings, and I never really expect this to change. The moon understands me; chickadees don't judge; blackberries don't break hearts. That's really the "harshness" I was trying to get at.
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Date: 2005-04-21 01:11 am (UTC)I don't think of nature as "harsh"-- the lilacs are love to me, and always have been; it is human society and the human world that is harsh and abrasive. I'll share my most intimate, tentative dreams with the cat or a tree, but never with another person. (Well, not unless I'm feeling more masochistic than usual.)
Nature has always been gentler on my inner life, my emotions and dreams, than human beings, and I never really expect this to change. The moon understands me; chickadees don't judge; blackberries don't break hearts.
That's really the "harshness" I was trying to get at.
...I like it when you bother being verbose. ^_^