Nomadic Quotes
Randy is reading Wandering God–a Study of Nomadic Spirituality by Morris Berman, a book claiming that travel is inherently therapeutic. Here are two quotes that impressed him:
"People wish to be settled;
but only as far as they are unsettled, is there any hope for them."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The second is a 5000-year old Sumerian poem describing nomads.
"A tent dweller buffeted by wind and rain
Dwelling in the mountain
The one who digs up mushrooms at the foot of the
mountain, who does not know how to bend the knee;
Who eats uncooked meat;
Who in his lifetime does not have a house;
Who on the day of his death will not be buried."
"People wish to be settled;
but only as far as they are unsettled, is there any hope for them."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The second is a 5000-year old Sumerian poem describing nomads.
"A tent dweller buffeted by wind and rain
Dwelling in the mountain
The one who digs up mushrooms at the foot of the
mountain, who does not know how to bend the knee;
Who eats uncooked meat;
Who in his lifetime does not have a house;
Who on the day of his death will not be buried."
posted by Diana | 11:45 AM
1 Comments:
I envy you. I guess we were all nomads and i find it very difficult to suppress the wanderlust in me and am forcefully domesticating myself :) - bhagya
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