Growing up … is the equivalent of the biblical Fall. As adults we forget what it was like to be a child. There is a sense that the world was different then, and that something important has been lost, but we are unable to recall what this is, or exactly what it felt like.*
John Higgs
We have. in many ways forgotten what the world feels like. And so new maladies of the soul have emerged, unhappinesses which are complicated products of the distance we have set between ourselves and the world.**
Robert Macfarlane
Somewhere inside
of me, there breathes
a six year old full
of curiosity and wonderment, who
feels so small in a big world.
Somewhere inside
of me, humility
and curiosity quietly lead me
into whisper of the infinite where
all is well with my soul.
*John Higgs’ William Blake vs The World;
**Robert Macfarlane’s The Wild Places.
THIN|SILENCE 