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Komorebi (木漏れ日), a Japanese term which is very difficult to translate, means roughly “the scattered light that filters through when sunlight shines through trees”. It is made up of three “Kanji” or Chinese characters: “tree” or “trees”, “leaking-through” or “escape”, and “light” or “sun”. Sunshine filtering through the trees.

Photo: Rob Visser Photography (2020)

(Via Scott Horton)

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"The facts of nature are what they are, but we can only view them through the spectacles of our mind. Our mind works largely by metaphor and comparison, not always (or often) by relentless logic. When we are caught in conceptual traps, the best exit is often a change in metaphor — not because the new guideline will be truer to nature (for neither the old nor the new metaphor lies “out there” in the woods), but because we need a shift to more fruitful perspectives, and metaphor is often the best agent of conceptual transition.

— Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist and historian of science (1941-2002), Glow, Big Glowworm, in Bully for Brontosaurus (1991) p. 264

Witch tree ("De Heksenboom" in Dutch), the Netherlands.

Photographer: Rob Visser

A broken tree on a beautiful morning in a forest in the Netherlands.