#sca

At the time of Lewis and Clark, setting the prairies on fire was a well-known signal that meant, ‘Come down to the water.’ It was an extravagant gesture, but we can’t do less. If the landscape reveals one certainty, it is that the extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation. After the extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down aeons of emptiness, heaping profusions on profligacies with ever fresh vigor. The whole show has been on fire from the word go. I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look, I see fire: that which isn’t flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#landscape #life #nature #wisdom #beauty

I just really am trying, trying, all the time. But I like to be scared. I love to suddenly feel out of control. ↗

— Kristen Stewart

#control #feel #i #i love #just

The idea seems to be to use the next treaty talks to strike a grand bargain: Britain will be helpful to those states wishing to establish a fiscal union among themselves if, in exchange, we can amicably derogate from the aspects of the EU which we dislike. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#aspects #bargain #britain #dislike #establish

It's not scary to make a horror film because you get to pull back the curtain and see that none of it's real. When you're watching one, the terror bombards you. ↗

— Josh Hartnett

#because #curtain #film #get #horror

I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me. ↗

— Charlie Hunnam

#escaping #films #i #i think #me

Apes are apes, though clothed in scarlet. ↗

— Ben Jonson

#scarlet #though

A child can escape the shadows. ↗

— Steve Largent

#escape #shadows

Europe is trying to get its fiscal house in order. ↗