"All through autumn we hear a double voice: one says everything is ripe; the other says everything is..."

“All through autumn we hear a double voice: one says everything is ripe; the other says everything is dying. The paradox is exquisite. We feel what the Japanese call “aware” — an almost untranslatable word meaning something like “beauty tinged with sadness.””



- Gretel Ehrlich, The Solace of Open Spaces (via litverve)