John O'Donohue – The Inner Landscape of Beauty
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Are You Just Talking About Landscape as the Natural World Around You?
I agree with you that an awful lot of arbon planning, particularly in poor areas, has doubly impoverished the poor by the ugliness which surrounds them. It's understandable that it's so difficult to reach and sustain gentleness there. But i think connecting to the elemental can be a way of coming into rhythm with the universe. I mean, the dawn goes up and the twilight comes even in the most roughest in or city place. And i've often, like, in times when it's been really difficult for me, if you can keep some kind of little contour that you can glimpse sideways now and again, you can endure great bleakness.
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