Slowly, silently, now the moon _x000D_ Walks the night in her silver shoon.
Interpretation
The quote evokes the serene and majestic presence of the moon as it quietly lights up the night.
This quote beautifully captures the tranquil and ethereal quality of the moon's presence in the night sky. By describing the moon as walking 'silently' and wearing 'silver shoon,' the imagery suggests a graceful and almost personified celestial being that adds a gentle illumination to the darkness, inviting contemplation and appreciation of nature's beauty.
In practice
In a poetry reading to set a calm and reflective mood.
He got out of bed and peeped through the blinds. To the east and opposite to him gardens and an apple-orchard lay, and there in strange liquid tranquility hung the morning star, and rose, rilling into the dusk of night the first grey of dawn. The street beneath its autumn leaves was vacant, charmed, deserted.
Tell them I came, and no one answered, That I kept my word," he said. Never the least stir made the listeners, Though every word he spake Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house From the one man left awake: Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup, And the sound of iron on stone, And how the silence surged softly backward, When the plunging hoofs were gone.
Very old are the woods; And the buds that break Out of the brier's boughs, When March winds wake, So old with their beauty are-- Oh, no man knows Through what wild centuries Roves back the rose.
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.
As long as man was small in numbers and limited in technology, he could realistically regard the earth as an infinite reservoir, an infinite source of inputs and an infinite cesspool for outputs. Today we can no longer make this assumption. Earth has become a space ship, not only in our imagination but also in the hard realities of the social, biological, and physical system in which man is enmeshed.
We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there.
Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutan shave been living for hundreds of thousands of years in their forest,living fantastic lives, never overpopulating, never destroying the forest. I would say that they have been in a way more successful than us as far as being in harmony with the environment.
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