Though they crawl on the gilded borders of illuminated manuscripts from another time, often seen as marginalia, I see moths as living oracles who do not speak but quietly land on the surface of things, often as a disturbance calling our attention to the importance of all that is hidden.
excerpt from the Foreword by Terry Tempest Williams in the volume of photography entitled, Mariposas Nocturnas by Emmit Gowin, 2017
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Wow! How poetic! No wonder it caused you to stop and share with us. What beautiful prose.
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Right, I agree. A very interesting woman.
And this book of photography by Emmet Gowin is really beautiful.
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Is she? It looks like a beautiful book.
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Yes. Environmental issues and feminist issues. A sort of Rachel Carson of Utah with a spiritual calling. (Rachel Carson is very big in Pittsburgh because she attended Chatham University and was from the Pittsburgh area) Not the same, but you understand my meaning.
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The name Rachel Carson does ring a bell. And yes, I understand your meaning. 🙂
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How lovely to read these words of Terry Tempest Williams’s, Sylvia, thank you. I was introduced to her recently from another blogger’s site, and with this excerpt you’ve presented, now I really do have to find more of her writing. Thank you. Your first image here is beautiful and intriguing.
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She is such a fascinating woman! I haven’t read her books as much as I’ve read about her, the person, the activist. The foreword to this book of photographs is so beautiful, just perfect for these amazing images.
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moths as “night butterflies” – I like that
✨🦋💭🐇🗝🌱🌅☀⚖☺🤍✨
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Yes, isn’t that lovely?!
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Sure is.
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Looks like my kind of book! 🙂
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I love it so very much. This book was gifted to me for Christmas by my son, Wolfgang who enjoys photography and has a great eye for it as well. The book is really a great treasure, as Gowin’s photography is a such a thing of beauty and awe. I believe you would enjoy it Eliza.
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Butterflies are beautiful, but moths always have a mysterious feel about them, at least to me Sylvia. Have you ever seen a lunar moth? –Curt
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I have only seen them in photos and illustrations. I would love to see one in real life.
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We were driving down the Natchez Trace when we found ours.
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What a gorgeous book. Butterflies and moths are my favorite of all God’s (and evolution’s) creations. And what a beautiful statement in the forward by a brilliant nature observer and writer. Intriguing image of oracles who do not speak but who nonetheless teach and reveal truth to our understandings.
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Yes, exactly. 🙂
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The words are so perfect. I look, I read, I sigh 🤗
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Ha!! Exactly! 🙂
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