"The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end. it is the highest emblem in the cipher of the world. St. Augustine described the nature of God as a circle whose center was everywhere, and its circumference nowhere."
"There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees."
From Ralph Waldo Emersons' essay "Circles" published in 1841.
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Comments: 4
but a circle is just one shape, one way of seeing..
still emerson is great, thanks for the thought provoking quote
Names and maps are human made things - limited attempts to grasp the silent, dynamic, flow.