“Thou cannot harm a butterfly, without troubling a star.”
― Madeleine L’Engle, Troubling a Star

I went out to the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum to wander and make photographs yesterday. Here are my favorites from my day.

“Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind.”
― Madeleine L’Engle, Swiftly Tilting Planet

This is how I see the world.

Ordinary Miracles Everywhere You Look

“Believing takes practice.”
― Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time: With Related Readings

Textures

“We do not know what things look like, as you say,” the beast said. “We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing, this seeing.”
― Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

Light

“Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.”
― Madeleine L’Engle, A Ring of Endless Light

Colors

“Nothing loved is ever lost or perished.”
― Madeleine L’Engle, A Ring of Endless Light

Cycles of Life

“The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.”
― Madeleine L’Engle

Symmetry and Beauty

Chaos

“Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos, we see despite all the chaos.”
― Madeleine L’Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

Mystery

“An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.”
― Madeleine L’Engle, A Circle of Quiet

Energy

“The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a particle. The discoveries made in the infinitely small world of particle physics indicate randomness and chance, and I do not find it any more difficult to live with the paradox of a universe of randomness and chance and a universe of pattern and purpose than I do with light as a wave and light as a particle. Living with contradiction is nothing new to the human being.”
― Madeleine L’Engle

Softness

“We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things which are not seen are eternal.”
― Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

Lines

“A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.”
― Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time: With Related Readings

Simplicity

“We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity that vanishes almost as soon as it comes.”
― Madeleine L’Engle

Simple Beauty

“She began to feel the sense of wonderful elation that always came to her when beauty took hold of her and made her forget her fears.”
― Madeleine L’Engle, And Both Were Young

Peace

“but BEing time is never wasted time. When we are BEing, not only are we collaborating with chronological time, but we are touching on kairos, and are freed from the normal restrictions of time.”
― Madeleine L’Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

How do you see the world?

May you walk in beauty.