Trees Rustling in the Evening Wind
by Elizabeth Tillar
Title
Trees Rustling in the Evening Wind
Artist
Elizabeth Tillar
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
"A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening. If one listens to them silently for a long time, this longing reveals its kernel, its meaning. It is not so much a matter of escaping from one's suffering, though it may seem to be so. It is a longing for home, for a memory of the mother, for new metaphors for life. It leads home. Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother.
So the tree rustles in the evening, when we stand uneasy before our own childish thoughts: Trees have long thoughts, long-breathing and restful, just as they have longer lives than ours. They are wiser than we are, as long as we do not listen to them. But when we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy. Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness."
― Hermann Hesse, B�ume. Betrachtungen und Gedichte
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August 8th, 2015
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Comments (8)
Elizabeth Tillar
Lisa, thank you very much for your lovely remarks about this image. I appreciate your details and your favoriting and sharing this image!
Lisa S Baker
Love the light and shadows in this image...the silhouette of the tree, with the vibrant pink of the sky, such a beautiful contrast!! f/l/g+
Elizabeth Tillar replied:
Lisa, thank you very much fro your lovely remarks about this image. I appreciate your details and your favoriting and sharing this image!
Elizabeth Tillar
Dave, thank you so much for your wonderful feedback! I am so glad you also like the description. Your comments are so inspiring to me!
Dave Farrow
Elizabeth, this is truly a beautiful image with an equally beautiful description...deserving of a gold medal...l.v.f....awesome
Jerry Bokowski
Beautiful Capture, Elizabeth.....I love sunsets and silhouettes!................FAV / LIKE
Elizabeth Tillar replied:
Jerry, thank you very much for your great comment and for making this image a favorite! I greatly appreciate your support.
Pamela Blizzard
Dazzling colors! beautiful! l/f/t
Elizabeth Tillar replied:
Pamela, thank you for your lovely words and for selecting this image as a favorite/sharing it!