Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Callow Resistance

Can it be that we do not love to be reminded
that we are very young
and callow
in a world that was old when
we came into it?

And could there be a strong resistance
to the certainty
that a living world will
continue its stately way when
we no longer inhabit it?

-- John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley in Search of America
(arranged quote)

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