Wednesday, 18 December 2024

#410: Don't make an enemy of an anemone

I liked this piece in the Guardian today on the anemone from Helen Sullivan.


A lovely quote from George Henry Lewes is included:

We must always remember the great drama which is incessantly acted out in every drop of water, on every inch of earth. Then and only then do we realise the mighty complexity, the infinite splendour of nature. Then and only then do we feel how full of life, varied, intricate, marvellous, world within world, yet nowhere without space to move is this single planet, on the crust of which we stand and look out into shoreless space peopled by myriads of other planets, larger, if not more wonderful than ours.

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